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Green Catapiller Orange/Yellow/Blue Spikes Cecropia moth caterpillar)

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Hunter ny
by: Anonymous

Have one in a cacoon under a chair... In hunter ny... Never seen one now just want to protect it.
one big caterpillar
by: Anonymous

we just found one that fell out of our butternut tree. we live in ohio near cleveland. i have never seen one of these before....simply amazing!!!!!!!!
Cecropia Moth Caterpillar
by: Anonymous

I live in Rockcastle County, Kentucky and found one of the Cecropia Moth Caterpillar's on my front porch. It's the first time I've ever saw one and for sure it looked scary but interestingly beautiful.
CECROPIA MOTH CATERPILLAR
by: Moni

Anonymous
If you found the caterpillar in Canada then it will survive Canada's winters. The moth that laid the egg that this caterpillar came from survived last winter :-)
cecropia worm/ catterpiller
by: Anonymous

we just found one in our backyard on a play house. we live in canada, do you think it would survive a canadian winter? I read that they cacoon till spring then turn into a cecropia moth
Cecropia Moth Caterpillar
by: Chris

I recently found one in my back yard also. I have never seen these before either. I leave in Western Pennslyvania.
Scott Co Ky caterpillar
by: Jody

I am also in Scott co. Ky and found one of these on a knockout rose bush. It was having quite a feast. This is the first one I've ever seen and I am 63 yrs old.
Caterpillar
by: Anonymous

My son just found one of these big guys outside on our maple tree, we live in Tomah, Wisconsin.
Cecropia moth caterpillar
by: Moni

Jenelle
Your large green caterpillar is a Cecropia moth caterpillar.
It is one of the large silkworm moths in the Saturniidae family. Below is a website to see the moth that your caterpillar turns into.
The caterpillars feed on foliage of many trees and shrubs including maple, oak, cherry, poplar, ash, beech, apple, boxelder, dogwood, gooseberry, elm, and willow. The moths do not feed, but survive on the energy accumulated by the caterpillar.
This insect overwinters as a pupa, so when the caterpillar is finished eating it forms a silky cocoon that is attached to twigs ...then the moth emerges the next spring.

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