Geometer moth caterpillar

Can you hear the munching? Are the leaves of your trees being eaten? If you are finding hairy, black caterpillars with blue and red spots with a little white thrown in for good measure, gypsy moth…

Inchworms like the Blackberry Looper are the larval or caterpillar stage of geometer moths, members of the Lepidoptera order of butterflies and moths.

Heavy localized populations of white-marked tussock moth caterpillars are being reported in central and western Ohio. Curtis Young (OSU Extension, Van Wert County) showed images during this week's BYGL Zoom Inservice of caterpillars on a variety of hosts including rose and noted he had received reports of hot spots in Allen, Hancock, and Putnam Counties. I received a report from Franklin County of 100% defoliation of a landscape redbud.

The traits of a common group of geometer moths, family Geometridae, are fascinating. Their caterpillars are known as loopers, inchworms, or spanworms.

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Moth Caterpillar (Geometridae) - Cordillera Escalera Conservation Area, Peru I see a lot of this type of caterpillar commonly known as inchworms. This is the larval stage of some sort of Geometer moth, but its difficult to narrow down as its a huge family with well over 30,000 species described and I'm sure countless others that await scientific description. Caterpillars like this are a familiar sight whether one is in temperate forest or tropical jungle, so I admittedly do not often stop to…

The geometer moths or Geometridae are a family of the order Lepidoptera. A very large family, it has around 35,000 species of moths described, and over 1400 species from six subfamilies indigenous to North America alone. Wikipedia Scientific name: Geometridae Rank: Family Higher classification: Geometroidea Lower classifications: Larentiinae, Lomaspilis, Alsophilinae, More

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Geometer moth larva [inchworm] by Joe Petersburger / Getty Images

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˚Hornworm Caterpillar by Fauna NY @ flickr

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