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Twig-Mimic Caterpillar

Twig-Mimic Caterpillar

June 3, 2013December 22, 2019 Julie Feinstein 2 Comments

I was walking on the path that circles Pakim Pond in the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in New Jersey last week. I walked into a gossamer thread that I thought was a spider web. I turned out to be a caterpillar’s silken support line. I looked down and saw a “twig” sticking out of […]

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