Caterpillar of the Canary-Shouldered Thorn

Description

"Their attitudes deceive even the close observer; they embrace the stem of the leaf or twig with their hinder or intermediate legs, whilst the rest of their body, vertically elevated, remans stiff and immovable for hours together."

Keywords

bugs life stages, butterflies moths lepidoptera;, insects, kcaterpillars

Galleries

Lepidoptera: Moths and Butterflies

Source:

Hazlitt Alva Cuppy PH.D., Editor Beauties and Wonders of Land and Sea (Springfield, OH: Mast, Crowell & Kirkpatrick, 1895)

Courtesy the private collection of Roy Winkelman