Subject: Caterpillar
Geographic location of the bug: Milkweed
Date: 08/09/2018
Time: 07:46 AM EDT
Your letter to the bugman: Thi dc is not a monarch caterpillar
How you want your letter signed: Sue
Dear Sue,
Knowing the plant upon which an insect is found it is often extremely helpful for identification purposes, but not all insects are found on plants, so we don’t have a field for that purpose. Milkweed is not a “Geographic location” and knowing if something was sighted in Pennsylvania or California or South Africa is also quite helpful, and every bug is found somewhere on the planet, which is why we have a Geographic location field on our submission form. Having the Geographic location is also of assistance for persons scouring the internet for identification purposes, so we hope you will write back and provide an actual Geographic location so we don’t have to leave that field blank in our posting. This is a Milkweed Tussock Moth Caterpillar, one of the many species, like the Monarch caterpillar, that depends upon milkweed for survival. We don’t understand what “Thi dc” means since we could not locate it in the dictionary.