{"id":176398,"date":"2015-08-17T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=87d170e890e27158df7eee23def7a645"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:23","slug":"a-walk-in-new-jersey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/a-walk-in-new-jersey\/","title":{"rendered":"A walk in New Jersey"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took a nice long walk in New Jersey today.<\/p>\n

I was about an hour’s drive from New York City in Hopewell.<\/p>\n

It looked like this…<\/p>\n

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I took a nice long walk in New Jersey today. I was about an hour’s drive from New York City in Hopewell. It looked like this…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I saw this huge caterpillar, fat, and about 4 inches long. It’s a Pandorus Sphinx moth caterpillar, Eumorphapandorus. It’s one of the caterpillars commonly called a hornworm, because in its younger stages it sports a horn on its rearend (which is on the left in this photo). Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The spot where the horn grows becomes a button on later-stage caterpillars like this one. It’s that eye-like black spot-in-a-circle. One of its foods is Virginia creeper; there was lots of it around.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And lots of Queen Anne’s lace.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And lots of butterflies. The one on the left in this picture, is a female clouded sulphur. On the right, in flight and blurry, is an orange sulphur male. These two species sometimes hybridize so they may have been up to something.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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And this young fellow peeked out from the trees.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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