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Caterpillars Count!
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Citizen science project on the abundance and phenology of 🐛🐞🦗🐝🦋🕷. Seeking new participating sites! Learn how to participate on our website!
https://caterpillarscount.unc.edu
A pirouetting caterpillar is a good way to start the day!

In this case, a balletic banded tussock moth (Halysidota tessellaris)
October 7, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Some fall webworms (Hyphantria cunea) dance to the beat of a different drummer

#IverteFest #insects #phenology #caterpillars
August 26, 2025 at 1:40 AM
If only life were always so simple as finding Walnut Caterpillar Moth (Datana integerrima) caterpillars on a walnut branch.

#insects #phenology #moths #caterpillars #monitoring
July 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
There’s no cuter and fuzzier a way to start off the week than with “boogie woogie” beech blight aphids!

We estimated at least 1500 on this branch, and could easily be more like 3000!

#insects #monitoring #CitizenScience #phenology

#ShakeItLikeAPolaroidPicture
July 28, 2025 at 3:12 PM
And how about these dangling Xmas ornaments— Datana caterpillars on water oak!

Also at Prairie Ridge Ecostation
July 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM