This Blackberry Looper-Chlorochlamys chloroleucaria caught my eye after the Cabbage White flew off.
I haven’t photographed an adult yet but with any luck this larva will give me the opportunity. When mature, it’s an emerald with white lines and quite attractive. similar to this cousin I shot last year. There are plenty of New England Aster-Symphyotrichum novae-angliae, blooms out there so it should develop nice and healthy. Their food is, as you might imagine by the name, blackberries which are not present in our yard but they obviously are not fussy and eat composite flowers as well. They are found throughout most of the U.S. stopping short of the western states but somehow miss West Virginia and South Dakota.
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It’s always fun to see a looper, especially when its color harmonizes with the flower it’s on.
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It was certainly fun to finish with the Cabbage White and look at the next bloom and find this caterpillar.
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This unusually long caterpillar could be confused with a tiny snake.
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The smallest snake in the world is about 4 inches…I checked…and this is about 1 inch so would have a little growing to do but it does appear long in closeup.
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Nice… I’ve been seeing quite a few larvae on my flowers of late… good to know that they’ll end up looking pretty and feeding the birds, too. 🙂
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I’ve seen a few but still not the numbers I would expect. Maybe a little time will produce more.
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Good luck – I hope the larva is cooperative! Your asters are in flower well before ours – not sure if ours may be late this year.
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Thanks, Ann. I hope so too and if things work out you’ll see it here. 🙂
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What a great mingling of color and texture!
Looking forward to the portrait of the adult.
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Fingers crossed, Wally. It happens occasionally. Thanks!
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I’ve never seen one with such distinct segments. It’s really attractive. The last ones I saw were fast, too. I watched them trucking down a boardwalk at truly remarkable speeds.
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This one was all over the flower and as you described, covered a lot of territory quickly although not a boardwalk. When they decide to go somewhere those little legs and humped abdomen get movin’.
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