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For Day 22, The Caterpillar Lab is highlighting the Cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia), January's featured Saturniid Giant Silk Moth---the colorful caterpillars get as large as breakfast sausages, and the size of their frass is incredible! ;-) https://t.co/Lg9vwLkz8S

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For Day 22, The Caterpillar Lab is highlighting the Cecropia moth (Hyalophora cecropia), January's featured Saturniid giant silk moth... Enjoy this amazing video of a Cecropia cat molting! https://t.co/9pbjKD3Yq9

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Amazing video of the Crowned Slug molting... https://t.co/BaQHVjBCUN

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Another venomous Limacodid, the Crowned Slug (Isa textula), is The Caterpillar Lab's Day 21 caterpillar-of-the-day... https://t.co/t7sGlcGmPe

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The Caterpillar Lab provides more information
on the Monarch, its selection for Day 20... https://t.co/xSmI7b5Ybb

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The caterpillar-of-the-day for Day 20 is one familiar to most: Monarch (Danaus plexippus)... https://t.co/JDrFo5Jf3g

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Here's more about the Nameless Pinion... https://t.co/mu5VxXYFjr

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For Days 18/19, The Caterpillar Lab's featured cat is the Nameless Pinion (Lithophane innominata).. https://t.co/w8BPuipwJL

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For Day 17, The Caterpillar Lab brings us Lemon Plagodis (Plagodis serinaria)---sounds like a dessert, but is actually a twig mimic geometrid... https://t.co/cHqcZbfn75

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Day 16 of the 'Caterpillar-of-the-Day" calendar reveals the Pink-Patched Loopef (Eosphoroyeryx thyatyroides)... https://t.co/0ctYeVLYA1

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The Caterpillar Lab adds this post for Day 15:
A large Ichneumon wasp which emerged from a Yellow Bear cocoon it had parasitized... https://t.co/E7OxmPERhl

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As s bonus cat for Day 15, The Caterpillar Lab presents the Great Tiger Moth (Arctia caja)! https://t.co/GCL9n01xUC

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Day 15 featured caterpillar is the Virginian Tiger Moth aka 'Yellow Bear" (Spilodoma virginica)... https://t.co/NKBdb3wZ6W

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A detailed look at some Cecropia cocoons... https://t.co/F3dNH9KnuR

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Video of a Cecropia cat which has been parasitized by a tachinid fly, with some of the maggots which hatch from those eggs being parasitized in turn by a hyperparasitoid wasp... https://t.co/ytpi6CPs5S

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Day 14 provides education on parasitoids of the Cecropia Giant Silk Moth (Hyalophora cecropia)... https://t.co/FNzYOu5QES

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Time to reveal The Caterpillar Lab's pick for 'caterpillar-of-the-day' for Day 13... Drumroll, please... It's the Ilia Underwing (Catocala ilia)! https://t.co/fH1yz8ybv0

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"All right, Mr. Jaffe, I'm ready for my closeup!" ;-) https://t.co/ODVRVyvdOa

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An amazing video from The Caterpillar Lab of a ventral view of a Saddleback cat molting... https://t.co/RfQ8BAEP7p