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Brown caterpillar with black spots (Noctuid armyworm or cutworm)

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Identified!
by: Ryan

Thanks! You can also add schefflera as one of the plants it dines on. This is the second time we have caught one of these caterpillars on our plants.
Noctuid armyworm or cutworm
by: Moni

Ryan
The photo is of one of the Noctuid moth caterpillars. As distinctive as it looks, many of the cutworms and armyworm caterpillars look very similar.
This worm looks like both the yellow striped armyworm and the large yellow underwing, as well as like the tobacco cutworm.
Larvae in this family feed on a wide variety of plants such as alfalfa, asparagus, bean, beet, cabbage, clover, corn, cotton, cucumber, grape, grass, jimsonweed, morning glory, onion, pea, peach, peanut, pokeweed, sweet potato, tobacco, tomato, turnip, wheat, watermelon, and wild onion. Now we can add avocado. :-)
They live over most of North America.

Here are some photos on bugguide.net -
http://bugguide.net/node/view/9531/bgimage?from=24

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