YouTube channel
Finally, The Caterpillar Lab has a YouTube channel! All of our videos from the past few years are uploaded and ready to view! Help us crawl across the web by visiting our new YouTube channel and subscribing and sharing some videos! You can find many of the same videos here on Facebook, but we are hoping that a YouTube presence will help us reach an ever larger audience. Enjoy! youtube.com/channel/UCJv1HFstDTEymXbFfVkVR9g - Sam Jaffe
TCL Director
Goldenrod Flower Caterpillar
The Goldenrod Flower Caterpillar, Schinia nundina, is just one member of a diverse and visually compelling genus of flower and seed eating caterpillars. Some Schinia flower caterpillars are expertly camouflaged against a floral backdrop, others resemble seed pods, and a few species display bright and contrasting warning coloration. My first experience with the Goldenrod Flower Caterpillar was an accidental one. A bouquet of cut flowers from a New England meadow delivered a fe
Evening Primrose Caterpillar
CATERPILLAR OF THE WEEK continued: Another flower, another Schinia. This is the Evening Primrose Caterpillar, Schinia florida. They are remarkable mimics of primrose seed pods and will rest on the pods with their heads buried inside them while they feast on all the delicious innards. Most Evening Primrose Caterpillars are green with a reddish tinged front end, but I have encountered a handful of bright pink individuals in years when they are particularly plentiful. Schina flo
