
CAMOUFLAGED LOOPER
CATERPILLAR OF THE WEEK: Watch out, Christian Dior and Stella McCartney! If Camouflaged Loopers (Synchlora aerata) were invited to Paris Fashion Week, they might steal your thunder. These caterpillars decorate themselves with exquisite outfits they craft from their food plants. #parisfashionweek2015 In Caterpillars of Eastern North America, author David Wagner calls the camouflaged looper "a Mardi Gras caterpillar that is out of costume only after a molt." Before I came to