Tolype velleda – Large Tolype

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

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