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Hey everyone! We've been working on all sorts of new and exciting creative ideas for the lab! This is our first attempt at using illustration to showcase the anatomy of a caterpillar! We'd love your feedback. Want to see more of this? Inside a cocoon/inside a pupa? Parasitoids inside a caterpillar? Adult moth? Let us know! | The Caterpillar Lab
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Hey everyone! We've been working on all sorts of new and exciting creative ideas for the lab! This is our first attempt at using illustration to showcase the anatomy of a caterpillar! We'd love your feedback. Want to see more of this? Inside a cocoon/inside a pupa? Parasitoids inside a caterpillar? Adult moth? Let us know! | The Caterpillar Lab
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This is the best thing... Just the very best thing ever. These Arizona flannel caterpillars, Megalopyge bissesa, also known as asps or puss caterpillars, are just about the most delightful little creatures I have had the pleasure to work with. So what that they are venomous, and have one of the most intense and painful stings of any caterpillar in North America? I can easily forgive them this as they meander around with their curly orange mow-hawks and little felted dongles. Flannel caterpillars
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This is the best thing... Just the very best thing ever. These Arizona flannel caterpillars, Megalopyge bissesa, also known as asps or puss caterpillars, are just about the most delightful little creatures I have had the pleasure to work with. So what that they are venomous, and have one of the most intense and painful stings of any caterpillar in North America? I can easily forgive them this as they meander around with their curly orange mow-hawks and little felted dongles. Flannel caterpillars
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Take a tour through the inside of a caterpillar! The Brazil skipper, Calpodes ethlius, is expanding its range through southeastern North America using planted canna lilies as its host plant. These jumbo skippers are unusually transparent and many of the caterpillar's organ systems can be observed directly even without magnification! Can anyone tell us what is going on with this caterpillar's neck bubbles?!?! And more broadly, we are happy to take advice on these kinds of resources as we try to r
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Take a tour through the inside of a caterpillar! The Brazil skipper, Calpodes ethlius, is expanding its range through southeastern North America using planted canna lilies as its host plant. These jumbo skippers are unusually transparent and many of the caterpillar's organ systems can be observed directly even without magnification! Can anyone tell us what is going on with this caterpillar's neck bubbles?!?! And more broadly, we are happy to take advice on these kinds of resources as we try to r
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Tent caterpillars overwinter as fully developed caterpillars within their egg shells. The caterpillars are ready and able to hatch on the very first days of spring, giving the hatchlings access to the season's first buds and leaves, and helping them to avoid the hoards of migrant birds and parasitoid insects that will be after them later in the season. Timing is everything - some years a cold blast late in the spring can wipe out significant numbers of the exposed hatchlings, other years the str
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Tent caterpillars overwinter as fully developed caterpillars within their egg shells. The caterpillars are ready and able to hatch on the very first days of spring, giving the hatchlings access to the season's first buds and leaves, and helping them to avoid the hoards of migrant birds and parasitoid insects that will be after them later in the season. Timing is everything - some years a cold blast late in the spring can wipe out significant numbers of the exposed hatchlings, other years the str
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Did you know our engineers get to experience our products years before they are even built? See our Virtual Reality Lab in action. 😎 | Caterpillar
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Did you know our engineers get to experience our products years before they are even built? See our Virtual Reality Lab in action. 😎 | Caterpillar
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On this Giving-Tuesday, please make a year-end contribution to support our outreach efforts in 2017. The Caterpillar Lab is a passionate organization, doing one-of-a-kind work that IS ONLY POSSIBLE with your help. http://www.thecaterpillarlab.org/support - Donate https://the-caterpillar-lab.myshopify.com - Donate and Shop Thank you all for the ongoing support! Mission Statement: "The Caterpillar Lab fosters greater appreciation and care for the complexity and beauty of our local natural history
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As if mimicking bird poop and creating a tower of shed head capsules weren’t enough - meet the wonderfully odd Harris’ three spot caterpillar (Harrisimemna trisignata), which also has the likeness of a jumping spider’s face on its rear end. The advantage of this mimicry becomes clear during the process showcased here: pupation. Harris’ three spot caterpillars don’t pupate under the soil or build a silk cocoon. Instead, they drill into solid wood to hollow out a narrow chamber for pupation. As th
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Happy eating and pooping today everybody! ~ from the most accomplished eaters and poopers of them all! | The Caterpillar Lab
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Suprise! The Caterpillar Lab was featured in a new documentary! This film is avaliable to our audience for a limited time online - check the comments for more information and answers to some frequent questions. Currious to see where all the magic happens? Stop by our physical location in Marlborough from 12-5pm on Friday 2/13 and Saturday 2/14, OR catch us at the Brattleboro Winter Farmer's Market on Saturday 2/14 from 10-2! | The Caterpillar Lab
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The Caterpillar Lab is on the move! Unfortunately, our Open Hours in Marlborough, NH are CANCELED this Saturday, June 15th. Instead, stop by on Friday from 12pm - 5pm and then head to Lee, NH to catch our traveling program at Bedrock Gardens this Saturday and Sunday! | The Caterpillar Lab
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This Abbott's Sphinx caterpillar is having a very bad day... The Braconid wasp larvae that have been living inside of it for a few weeks of relative peace and prosperity, have developed to a point where they are ready to emerge, spin cocoons, and finish up their journey towards becoming adult winged wasps. Their final meal within the caterpillar, together with the trauma of their emergence, will end up killing the caterpillar. I am sad to lose such a beautiful and charismatic caterpillar as the
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Papaipema part 2! | The Caterpillar Lab
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The Caterpillar Lab is gearing up for our summer programs! Be on the lookout for a list of all our traveling events soon; in the meantime, here's another chance for our local nature lovers to explore caterpillars and other critters this month! | The Caterpillar Lab
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VIDEO THEME WEEKS: A special gift for the holidays – let's do a crowd favorite! It's SLUG CATERPILLAR week! Rejoice!!! For our fourth and final slug caterpillar video of the week, and of the year, take a look at the inner workings of a Nasson's slug! From our orinal posting: "The latest dose of strange from The Caterpillar Lab: A look at the INSIDES of a living caterpillar! When viewed from below through a glass microscope slide, the transparent-bellied slug caterpillars offer a unique view into
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This Camponotus ant is fully devoted to the eastern tailed-blue caterpillar it was collected with. Every time I moved behind the camera the ant acted aggressively, presenting its mandibles to ward me off. Having your own personal ant bodyguard is a great way to stay alive! Many caterpillars of the family Lycaenidae, the blues and hairstreaks, have complex and specialized relationships with ants. Some lycaenid species have mutualistic partnerships, feeding ants sugar secretions and enjoying the a
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A native PREDATORY CATERPILLAR devours an afternoon snack at The Caterpillar Lab. The ashen pinion, Lithophane antennata, will eat an oak leaf if it must, but they much prefer a juicy inchworm. I first observed this behavior in the wild in 2009. I had no idea that Lithophane were omnivorous at the time - what a surprise it was when this green fruitworm of a caterpillar reached over and grabbed a winter moth larva from a neighboring leaf! Watching this drama play out, I wonder why there are not m
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Monarch caterpillars, Danaus plexippus, have been plentiful this year in yards and vacant lots around The Caterpillar Lab. We will be putting together a larger feature on the species later this fall, hoping to explore them from some new angles, but having stayed up half the night to film this one pupating - I thought I'd share the video clip now! I left the clip in real-time so you can all see exactly how quickly a pupation progresses. Remember, the bright green, gold-spotted, smooth pupa (also
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The Caterpillar Lab is at the Discovery Museum in Acton, MA! Wondering what caterpillar is munching in this video?? Come check out our program and find out! We will be here Thursday-Sunday | The Caterpillar Lab
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Ants interacting with a silvery blue butterfly caterpillar, Glaucopsyche lygdamus, at The Caterpillar Lab! One of the highlights of every summertime caterpillar lab show is watching these ant-caterpillar interactions play out under our digital microscopes. Last year we joined our audiences in awe as we observed inflating tentacular organs for the first time. Even our old-time caterpillar lab experts can still be suprised and delighted by these strange and complex little creatures. | The Caterpil
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Introducing North America's largest slug caterpillar, the Saddleback - Acharia stimulea. It is hard to leave "Slug Caterpillar Appreciation Week" behind when there are just so many fantastic and unusual species to tell you about. My first experience with the saddleback came from exploring my neighbors backyard in a Boston Massachusetts suburb as a child. This... thing... was resting on the underside of a buckthorn leaf, bright green and brown, bulbous, with an apparent face made from fleshy antl
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This is one of the stranger moments that we've captured at "The Caterpillar Lab" this season: A Saddleback Caterpillar (Acharia stimulea) sheds its skin into a flabby final instar. What a fantastic creature! | The Caterpillar Lab
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Come check out our free Open Hours at The Caterpillar Lab tomorrow (Saturday) from 12-5pm. We have lots of caterpillary gifts in stock and quite a few strange creatures to share with you! My favorite current resident? A Megalopygid flannel caterpillar. The true trouble with tribbles is that they are both quite cute and quite venomous. The original danger floofs. | The Caterpillar Lab
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The latest dose of strange from The Caterpillar Lab: A look at the INSIDES of a living caterpillar! When viewed from below through a glass microscope slide, the transparent-bellied slug caterpillars offer a unique view into the inner workings of a caterpillar's body. At a recent outreach program we tried out this trick under our microscopes with a Nason's slug caterpillar (Natada nasoni) and were astounded by the details we were able to observe. Even though our Nason's slug caterpillar is restin
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Caterpillar-of-the-Day Follow Along: Day 135 For today's caterpillar, enjoy a video from the TCL vaults of caterpillars doing what they do best... eating. Here is one of our lovely native giant silk moth caterpillars, the Promethea, devouring a cherry leaf. Don't miss the fantastic conclusion at the end of the video! -------- - Caterpillar: Promethea Moth - Callosamia promethea - Host Plants: Black Cherry, Ash, Spicebush, Sassafras, Buttonbush, Tulip Tree, Magnolia. - Range: Eastern North Americ
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ADVENTURE! After a light spring snowstorm, The Caterpillar Lab was allerted to the appearence of "1000's of noctuid caterpillars all over the snow" by a veteran Caterpillar Lab educator (Thanks Liz). I rushed to the scene with nothing on hand but a Dunkn' Donuts bag and found an incredible number and dibversity of species. Now they have been sorted and photographed, we'll have to wait to see the adults though to identify many of them to species. If it snows again where you are, see if you can fi
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A moment we sometimes wait hours just to watch - the inevitable yet often unseen process of a caterpillar molting its exoskeleton in order to grow larger! And what better caterpillar to demonstrate than the magnificently colorful larva of our cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia. The most reliable way we can determine that a caterpillar is getting close to shedding (aka pre-shed) is by looking at its head. At the beginning of the video, look at the dark head capsule of the cecropia and you can see
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Have you ever searched for caterpillars using an ultraviolet flashlight? It’s a trick of the trade that The Caterpillar Lab team utilizes frequently for finding native caterpillars at night, and a game changer to say the least! Many caterpillars fluoresce bright blue under ultraviolet light, making them stand out like light bulbs against their host plant in the dark of night - demonstrated wonderfully by this Polyphemus caterpillar! We recently started selling these wonderful UV flashlights thro
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