What am I - quiz

Tony T · Post by **Tony T** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 9:51 am

Part of an animal, photo in the wild exactly as seen

jmlphoto · Post by **jmlphoto** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 10:55 am

caterpillar of some sort?

MacroLuv · Post by **MacroLuv** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 11:45 am

A sphinx moth caterpillar?

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 1:20 pm

I have something somewhere that looks like this, it is a caterpillar or at least the one I have is. However, I cannot place a name to it.

Tony T · Post by **Tony T** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 2:38 pm

OK,either too easy or you guys are too smart

It's an owlet moth caterpillar (Noctuidae);specifically a Brown-Hooded Owlet (Cucullia convexipennis)

Ken Ramos · Post by **Ken Ramos** » Mon Dec 31, 2007 5:41 pm

Yep that's it and now I know the name of it. I see you had DOF problems with it too

Funny thing though, I am not all that familar with a lot of this stuff. Most of what I have found out about insects, I have found out through this forum. When I first photographed one of these things, I was a bit puzzled as to which end was which, the markings on the tail and its shape suggested to me that it was the head but after a bit I figured it out.