<div dir="ltr"><div>The second one looks like Euclea delphinii to me.<br><br></div>Hugh<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 8:31 PM, David Hamilton Cox <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dhcox@nyx.net" target="_blank">dhcox@nyx.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I would greatly appreciate any help identifying these two larvae, both<br>
seen this past summer in Madison County, Virginia.<br>
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1. <a href="http://www.nyx.net/~dhcox/larva1.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.nyx.net/~dhcox/larva1.jpg</a><br>
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Taken on August 30, on catnip, at the parking lot for the Limberlost trail in<br>
Shenandoah National Park. Trying to identify this has had the beneficial<br>
effect of me finally paying more attention to the "Morphology" section of<br>
Wagner's field guide. In there he says "The number and relative sizes of the<br>
prolegs are often a clue to a caterpillar's identity." It looks like this<br>
caterpillar has prolegs on a5 and a6 only. Next time I will know to pay<br>
more attention to this in the field. In any case I could find nothing that<br>
looked like this in that guide. It was about 2 inches long, at least.<br>
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2. <a href="http://www.nyx.net/~dhcox/larva2.jpg" target="_blank">http://www.nyx.net/~dhcox/larva2.jpg</a><br>
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Taken on August 29 in my yard. I assume this is a slug caterpillar; perhaps<br>
an early instar of Natada nasoni, Nason's slug? That's the closest match I<br>
could find in the field guide. It was maybe a third of an inch long.<br>
<br>
Thanks!<br>
<br>
-David<br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Hugh McGuinness<br>Washington, D.C.<br>
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