What kind?

[Gerald Mines]

Hi Tessa,

Go to this web page: http://www.ent.orst.edu/lepphoto/thumb.html
Click on the thumbnail image on the tenth row, third one from the left.
(http://www.ent3.orst.edu/lepdb/getimage.asp?imagefile=img0093.jpg)

To find out more about it, go here: http://www.ent.orst.edu/lepphoto/
Click on the search link and click on search by taxonomy.
Set family = Lymantriidae.
Set genus = Dasychira.
Then click on the Dasychira vagans thumnail.

Hope that's the one,

Gerald Mines
Omaha, Nebraska
http://www.tconl.com/~mines


Brian Joyce wrote:
> 
> Hi!
>     I've found a caterpillar in the Peace country in Canada and am
> wondering what kind it is. It is black with white spikes and a kind of
> mohawk made of different shades of grey. It has four feelers. Two at the
> front and two at the back. It has two tiny red dots at the end of it. I
> found it on a popolar tree.
> Can any one help me out with telling me what kind it is?
>                                                     Thanks
>                                                                 Tessa