#caterpillar
Where is Zilo?
I finally finished this exercise!
AWhere is Wally like illustration with my buggies at the beach!
Inktober Day 4 - Alchemy - Ingredients - Black and white ink + paintshop
Caterpillar ghosts!!
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Plain nawab butterfly caterpillar, chrysalis, and adult
Polyura hebe, Charaxinae, found in Southeast Asia
Photos 1-5 by richardking and 6 by budak
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Cranked out some #inktober #art gonna try to do the whole month this year! #caterpillar #skull #insect #ink #pen
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoaaxYjlS2l/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pvrv2v17ws21
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All of these pins are now available for pre-order! Anyone who pre-orders will get a small amount ($0.50) off of the planned selling price. It’s small, but at least it’s something~
I’m opening pre-orders for all three of these designs as enamel pins Friday June 19th at 5pm EST. Only 40 spots for each pin (there will be more actually made, but this is to be sure there will be enough “good” pins out of the batch to fufill pre-orders). If you order then you will get a tiny amount off of the price I actually plan on charging them (they’ll be $0.50 cheaper than I’ll sell them for when they arrive).
don’t squeeze the caterpiller’s butt, that’s rude
I’m going to make that noise every time someone goes near my butt.
what I’ve learned from this is that some bugs actually make the sounds that Pokemon has led us to believe they do
That’s so mean! D: It sounds all distressed and I’m terrified of anything with more than 4 legs, but it’s just so cute I can’t stand hearing it squeak D:
Brown tail moth caterpillars in a hawthorn hedge #lepidoptera #nature #naturephotography #macronature #hawthorn #caterpillar #moth #larva #larvae #naturelovers
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“I have been try so hard to figure out what this cute, fuzzy little guy is called..but I can’t find anything. Found him in Yokohama-shi!”
I am reasonably certain that your fuzzy flat caterpillar is a type of
Lappet Moth
that are often found on pine trees in Japan. They’re known as
カレハ蛾 “Kareha-ga"
moths in Japanese. I couldn’t find one with that particular coloration on the page of Lappet Moths, but the low carriage, wide stance, body shape, black tuft in front and large face all resemble that family as far as I can tell, so this is my best guess. Thanks again for your submission and have a great fall!
Comparison photos of Lappet Moths
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Submission: “What kind of moth or butterfly will this be? And is it poisonous?”
Hello! Thanks for your submission!
I’m getting a lot of these lately (I’ve had 2 this week alone!) because it’s the season for Indian Fritillary caterpillars to start wandering around, looking for a place to pupate.
You can see a longer post about them here!
I can’t find any specific information about whether the spikes on the caterpillar are venomous, although I would probably avoid touching them just in case. The spines on many caterpillars (especially those of certain moths) contain little ‘hairs’ that can break off and cause skin irritation or pain. A caterpillar wearing such distinct high-contrast colors is likely warning predators to avoid eating it for both their benefit. ;)
These highly noticeable caterpillars turn into a gorgeous golden-orange speckly Fritillary butterfly (the females are larger and have a bright white patch next to an iridescent denim-blue patch) which fly all over Japan until first frost.
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“Hi everyone, I love and am very interested in insects, especially east asian ones. sadly I have no clue about any of them.
All these photos I took in Japan would love to know what exactly they are.
I have tried to search for insect identification websites (found but nothing comes up when I simply search for “cicada” for example) or a kind of lexica with photos of them all to identify them. no such luck. but i found this here fine website and hope you can help me.
most of them were shot in the island of kyushu, northern region of the island in fukuoka prefecture. some the shield bug is from iwakuni in yamaguchi prefecture
Thank you very much”
Hello, thank you for the very big submission! I’ll work on these as well as I can.
The cicada (Far Right) appears to be a Niiniizemi, Kempfer cicada, Platypleura kaempferi.
The green grasshopper is some close relative of the Atractomorpha genus, possibly Atractomorpha lata (オンブバッタ Onbubata).
The green and gray spider appears to be a male Neoscona scylloides , Comparison photo here.
The slim golden wasp looks much like a “Hosoashinaga-bachi” (Slim long-legged wasp) or Parapolybia indica.
The caterpillar might be a species of Cabbage Looper, but I’ll have to dig a little deeper in the world of caterpillars to find it for sure.
I suspect the shield bug is actually a nymph, but haven’t found a match yet.
The large grasshopper appears to be a type of locust, again they are tricky to ID!
I’ll have to ask around about the beetle too, but it’s very cute.
Thanks so much for the submission!
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Brilliant photos from Hakenomori showing the difference in 4th-instar swallowtails common to Japan: Papilio memnon (Great Mormon, “Nagasaki Ageha”),Papilio protenor (Spangle,“Kuro Ageha”),Papilio xuthus (Yellow Swallowtail, “Ageha”or“Nami Ageha”), which all look extremely similar at the young instars.
They are much easier to differentiate at later instars, but most Swallowtails use the clever camouflage of looking like poo when young, and little green snakes when in their last instar (shed before pupating).
Last Wednesday I picked up two very small (1cm) swallowtails off a Kinkan (kumquat, Citrus japonica) tree, assuming they were the regular, common Papilio xuthus that I’ve raised many times before. I only found two of a similar size among the dozen saplings at that location, but took them home along with some more citrus leaves.
In the 6 days I’ve had them, they both shed twice and ate and grew, and are now at about the size that a normal Papilio xuthus would have already shed to 5th instar, but their skin looks taut and greenish instead of a deep coffee brown. Finally this morning I suspected I was not looking at Papilio xuthus after all, and went online to look up differences. They don’t have the white ‘butt’ of a Kuro Ageha, so I looked a little closer— then I noticed the sky blue speckles along their backs and realized I had stumbled upon the stunningly beautiful, much more uncommon Great Mormon caterpillar!
Their mother must have recognized the citrus trees as a suitable food for her caterpillars, but instead of placing many eggs like xuthus, left only a few eggs and zoomed off to find another location.
I look forward to raising these guys with great attention!
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Hi - could you help me identify this caterpillar? It was on my lime tree. I’m in Yamaguchi-ken.
Hello!
Thanks for your submission!
You’ve found my all-time favorite bug of Japan and the one on my header image, a Papilio xuthus , Chinese Yellow Swallowtail (called “Ageha” or “Nami-ageha”).
You can see other posts I’ve made about these iconic and beautiful butterflies on my blog here: https://bugsofjapan.tumblr.com/tagged/papilio_xuthus
This particular caterpillar is going to be a pupa within 5-10 days depending on the weather temperature. It’s nearly impossible to tell the sex of a caterpillar, but I had a system I was working on when raising these, judging by the shape of the abdomen when they were fully grown as caterpillars before they became a chrysalis– however yours is not very far into his fifth “instar” (shed skin stage as a larva) judging by the size of his face (large) to his body (kind of small and wrinkly). He will get QUITE a bit bigger, probably as big as your pinky finger before becoming a chrysalis!
The caterpillars of Papilio xuthus can ONLY feed on plants in the citrus family (including Rue), but Japan is chock-full of citrus trees so they are commonly seen in suburban areas. They will eat a LOT of leaves at this stage, but they are a caterpillar for only 5-10 more days before becoming a butterfly, and then going on to be a wonderful pollinator in the neighborhood. Your caterpillar, if he grows up, will live as a butterfly all the way until the first frost when he will freeze and die. However, any of his children that have become a pupa will stay as a pupa over winter, even in freezing temperatures, and emerge in the spring time as the first ‘flight’ of Ageha in April.
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Hello! Thanks for the submission! You’ve found a DO NOT TOUCH tussock moth caterpillar: these have STINGING HAIRS that will cause rashes or painful reactions on exposed skin.
This one appears to be Calliteara pudibunda, the Pale Tussock Moth (a delightful Latin name for a spiky fellow).
The adults are pretty simple, light grayish.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calliteara_pudibunda
This moth is found across the world in Europe, Russia, China, Korea and Japan and other places. The caterpillars feed on trees including oak, willow and birch.
Thanks again!
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“Hello which caterpillar is this exactly?
I guess some sort of hawk moth?
Location was Chiba prefecture
ありがとうございます!”
Hello! Thanks for the submission! You’ve found one of the relatively common
Theretra japonica
which is a kind of hawk moth/Sphingidae or Sphinx Moth. They leave the bushes they grew up on to wander and find a place to pupate in soft soil, but in the cities that usually means they wander onto concrete sidewalks and lose their way. If you find one wandering like this, you can take it home and pop it in a flowerpot of potting soil and it will probably dig down and pupate, emerging a while later as a lovely striped moth.
“Hi there. We found this caterpillar in September 2016 in central Tokyo. Crawling along the path, about a meter away from bushes in boxes. No other insects (not even flies or mosquitoes) around. Can you tell me what it is? Thanks for such an interesting site. -Z”
your picture is clear and your description accurate enough (about a meter away from bushes in boxes) for me to identify it as a Hawkmoth/Sphinx Moth caterpillar,
Theretra japonica コスズメ (”Kosuzume”) (no common name in English)
http://tokyoinsects2.blog.fc2.com/blog-entry-801.html
which was on its way to pupating in some dirt away from the plants it had been feeding on as a caterpillar! These guys often get lost wandering across concrete, because they are trying to find some soft soil to dig down into to pupate underground. They’re really just not evolved for living in a concrete-paved city, poor things. But this is still one of the most common sphinx moth species even in the most urban areas and the two big eyespots on each side with the darker brown stripe along the top is a giveaway that you found one of these guys. Thanks again for your great photo and hope this clears up a mystery you’ve been wondering about for a while.
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Rustic Sphinx moth caterpillar (Manduca rustica)
Bug of the Day
The luxuriously floofy caterpillar of the Spotted Apatelodes (Apatelodes torrefacta), dining on meadowsweet out in the woods earlier this week.
A moment of clarity? Self loathing. (Kind of well deserved…)
As far as I know, Peter doesn’t like harming animals or other small creatures (there was some info, that while driving he accidentally hit a squrrel, and was feeling bad\guilty about it…), and that may be because animals pose no threat to his relationship with the player. Other characters on the other hand? He easily justifies killing any other person that may stand between him and his goal of getting into a relationship with the player. That is a quite sickly twisted mindset he has. He’s possessive, obsessed and honeslty deeply insecure and pathetic human being.
Wayne is a pretty chill person, he values life of any creature. (Except mosquitoes. Those can f%ck off) He tries to not hurt anyone if he can and feels pretty bad if he has to argue with someone. But if his patience runs out - he can blow up and won’t take any shit from people clearly trying to get under his skin. Wayne also doesn’t like when someone hurts people he likes\his friends. So he’d have troubles with Peter’s demeanor for sure.
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Mirkwood: Richmond Park’s Spooky Forest
Mirkwood: Richmond Park’s Spooky Forest
The Dead Tree Series isn’t dead…it’s been only sleeping then over the Spring and Summer it reawakened when I found the spooky woods in Richmond Park. I thought I’d post these before Halloween (don’t worry it wont be a 16,000 word tome like the first Jurassic Jaunt..ouch!)! These gnarled twisty old trees are sandwiched between the eastern side of Isabella Plantation and the Coronation…
Here are some sweet little bug character designs for a project i’m on at the moment. I think my favourite thing to draw is cute bugs. I have this whole pitch idea I’d love to pursue one time, featuring all kinds of different buggins, but WHO HAS THE TIME??
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“How soft a Caterpillar steps—
I find one on my Hand
From such a velvet world is comes
Such plushes at command
Its soundless travels just arrest
My slow—terrestrial eye
Intent upon its own career
What use has it for me—“
“How soft a Caterpillar steps—,” The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson — ed. Thomas H. Johnson
