Subject: Unknown Caterpillar
Location: North east coast of South Africa
June 9, 2014 4:10 am
We found this guy eating on the tree and then began spinning a cocoon around himself. Amazingly the next morning the cocoon was complete with the hairs from the caterpillar embedded into the surface.
Signature: Brian
Hi Brian,
We believe this is a Lappet Moth Caterpillar in the family Lasiocampidae, and we did find what appears to be a matching image on iSpot that is identified as a Toothed Cream Spot Eggar, Catalebeda cuneilinea, but we have not been able to locate any other images online to verify that identification.
