Subject: caterpillar identification
Geographic location of the bug: Malawi, Africa
Date: 10/24/2017
Time: 07:00 PM EDT
My niece found this in Malawi. Can you help id it? Thanks!
How you want your letter signed: Marilyn
Dear Marilyn,
Though we have not had any luck locating a matching image to your spectacular caterpillar, we believe it is a Tussock Moth Caterpillar in the subfamily Lymantriidae. Here is a Getty Images example of an obviously different species. Perhaps one of our readers will have better luck at an identification than we have had.