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Posted: July 07 2009 at 6:05pm \| IP Logged

I was working in my vegetable garden and noticed a few fluffy white things. At first I thought they were just fluff, but now I see they are fluffy white caterpillars, very small (1/2 to 3/4 inch long).

I was going out to destroy them, but thought I'd try to ID first. no luck on the computer. I'll try to get a camera shot. They are hanging around the zucchini plant.

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I couldn't get a close-up. It's actually a pale, pale, yellow fuzz, with green underneath. And it was hanging on the carrot plants mostly, near the zucchini.

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Posted: July 07 2009 at 6:33pm \| IP Logged

It sounds like a puss caterpillar

http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/2000/2130.html

The babies are white, but they get bigger and orange and sting badly if you touch them!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puss_caterpillar

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Posted: July 07 2009 at 6:38pm \| IP Logged

Oh, those look scary! No, that's not them. These are skinny almost run-of-the-mill kind of green caterpillar with white/soft yellow fuzz.

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Posted: July 07 2009 at 8:29pm \| IP Logged

Have you tried this site:what's this caterpillar
Maybe a fall webworm?

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Posted: July 07 2009 at 9:30pm \| IP Logged

lapazfarm wrote:

Have you tried this site:what's this caterpillar
Maybe a fall webworm?

Fall Webworm seems closest, I guess. I read one place that they vary, and can be green in body, like these are underneath the fuzz. I didn't see many marking. Perhaps they are too little/young to ID yet? I'm dunking them in precaution, anyway.

I'm such a neophyte when it comes to nature. We're just plugging away at the basics....

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