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| List: MassLep Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:15:48 -0400 From: Josh <opihi...> Subject: Re: [MassLep] Harvester Caterpillar - Paxton - 9/22/25 |
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Hi Kristin, My only encounter with Harvester cats was almost exactly the same time of y= ear: September 25, 2010, at Tom Swamp in Petersham. So the timing of yours = fits, at least. The cats in my case were found and identified by Sam Jaffe,= so I=E2=80=99m pretty sure that their ID is correct ;-) :=20 https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/315904670 Cheers, Josh Joshua S. Rose, Ph.D. Amherst, MA https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/opihiman https://www.facebook.com/opihi Writer/compiler, Bird Observer https://www.birdobserver.org/ Columnist, =E2=80=9CEarth Matters=E2=80=9D https://www.gazettenet.com/search?bodysearch=3Dearth+matters https://www.hitchcockcenter.org/category/earth-matters/ Vice-president, Hampshire Bird Club https://hampshirebirdclub.org/ Northeast Chapter head, Dragonfly Society of the Americas https://www.dragonflysocietyamericas.org/northeastdsa > On Sep 22, 2025, at 4:49=E2=80=AFPM, '<kstein1967...>' via MassLep <ma= <sslep...> wrote: >=20 > I saw my first Harvester caterpillar today! I went out for a quick walk, = passed some alders loaded with woolly aphids, ran back to the car to get my= binocs, and then spent a l-o-n-g time looking in all that white fluff. >=20 > I feel hesitant reporting this since I have no photographic evidence and = it's my first report of this ever, but it looked exactly like the caterpill= ars on inaturalist: > https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?taxon_id=3D81729 > and like the first caterpillar photo in this "Nature Watch" blog: > https://www.natureblog.org/harvester-chrysalis-and-other-insect-and-flora= -news-from-the-wild/ >=20 > If there are reasons why this doesn't seem like a logical sighting, let m= e know; otherwise I'm accepting it at today's gift. > Kristin Steinmetz > Paxton, MA >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups= "MassLep" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an= email to masslep+<unsubscribe...> > To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/masslep/7= <76030444.5137840.1758574150230...> --=20 You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "= MassLep" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an e= mail to masslep+<unsubscribe...> To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/masslep/90E= <25536-6786-4C3B-A695-F17080F81659...> |
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