Comments for
Big Green with Orange Headdress (Hickory Horned Devil)

Click here to add your own comments

NC
by: NC

Have one of these things hanging beside my house! freaky looking. lookin forward to seeing what it turns into
Found one today
by: Wendy

Just outside of Charleston, West Virginia. Never seen anything like it!
HICKORY HORNED DEVIL
by: Moni

Anonymous
'Devilish looking thing!...hahaha :-) great pun

Grew up in east central IN.
Thanks!
by: Anonymous

A friend of mine found one of these on a tree oustside of his home in central eastern Indiana. I searched the description with Bing and found your site. Thanks for helping us I.D. this devilish looking thing!
wow its big
by: patti

i live in howell new jersey and found one in my yard today 8/12/2011 it really is ugly
a large catelpiller
by: Anonymous

i found 1 of these catelpillers 2day in owenton ky in my driveway it fell out of a ash tree. i saw it 40 or 50 ft from me crawling on the ground. it was the largest i have ever seen/
One Big Scary Catapiller
by: Clint

8/5/11 Found one on my popup camper in Verona Virgina.
highlight of my day
by: Anonymous

I am located just south of St. Louis Missouri and I saw one of these catapillars on a walk today. It fell out of a walnut tree and of coarse we all had to poke at it. I did'nt want to touch it, I thought for sure it was poisonous. Great photo.
Baton Rouge, LA
by: Anonymous

Found one of these 9/4/2010. Beauty and the Beast.
big fat caterpillar
by: Anonymous

I was working on a tree job with my boyfriend, and saw this big fat caterpillar with horns. I researched its identity and it is a horned hickory devil. Thank God it wasn't poisonous, I couldn't resist picking it up. Very ominous looking with a twinge of cuteness.
ew
by: Anonymous

My dad found one when he was working in the yard in Virginia.
The hickory horn devil
by: Anonymous

I am located in Western Pennsylvania and found one of theses full grown!
the beautiful beast !
by: chandra

I saw one today on a put put course in Indianapolis . When I saw it I freaked! I thought did I fall down a rabbit hole ? It's stright out of Alice and wonderland ! From my research they're from all over the place !
!!
by: Anonymous

I saw one today (july 31, 2010) on the NCR trail in Baltimore, Maryland. It was huge!!! An inch or so thick and about 5 inches long. Very cool
Camp Caterpillar
by: Isabella Evans

I found a Hickory Horned Devil caterpillar at Camp Cullen in Trinity, Texas.It fell from a Cottonwood Tree. I thought it was a plastic toy. It made a loud thud sound when it dropped to the ground. My father screamed like a baby when he touched it with a stick, and he's 47 years old! He is a big baby. To me it looked like it was dangerous and poisonous. I thought it could kill me!
Hickory Horned Devil
by: Moni

Carol
Your photo is of the hickory horned devil. It is the larva of the Royal Walnut moth, also called the Regal moth.
The larvae feed on leaves of ash, burning bush, butternut, cotton, gum, hickory, lilac, pecan, persimmon, sumac, sycamore, and walnut. The larva pupate in the soil. It was probably getting ready to head to a pupation site when you found it.
Tho the caterpillar looks dangerous, it is harmless.
Adult moths of this family do not feed.

(You can look at the adult on Insect Id page -
Read more: http://www.simplegiftsfarm.com/large-orange-moth-regal-or-royal-walnut-moth-comments.html#ixzz0RhvDY8TP)

Click here to add your own comments

Join in and write your own page! It's easy to do. How?
Simply click here to return to Insect Identification

Return to Big Green with Orange Headdress (Hickory Horned Devil)









Subscribe


Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner



Subscribe in a reader


Subscribe in a reader

E-Mail Updates


Enter your email address:

Delivered by FeedBurner



Videos

Watch Videos


Loading...

.