Family Lasiocampidae Hodges # 7670
Caterpillar foods: apple, ash, aspen, basswood, beech, birch, cherry, oak, and other woody species (Bugguide)
9/18/2004 Found on the Knife Edge Point on a Horsetail (Equisetum). I suspect that it had just hatched, and the white thing that it’s sitting on is the cocoon that it emerged from.
9/18/2004
9/8/2022
9/15/2017
9/1/2016
9/8/2011 I think this is a female – large (about 3 cm long), with pale, less contrasting markings.
9/8/2011
9/17/2011