Here are some close-up photos. Any ideas what it might be? Using one Internet site, I thought it looked like some type of looper, but it didn't make an inchworm-type loop while I was observing it.
You can click to em-biggen.Edit: I may have figured it out. A photo and link on "What's this bug?" led me to this photo on Bug Guide, and the following ID:
The caterpillar of the Goldenrod Hooded Owlet Moth. Its host plants are asters and, wait for it - goldenrod! Don't you love it when things come together?
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Sorry, not a clue. Don't you wish the butterfly field guides showed the cat to go with it?
I'll bet Nina will know.
Yeah, Lynne - both online references and field guides seem to require that you know the butterfly (or moth) before you can figure out the cat that goes with it. I found a field guide on Amazon called Caterpillars of Eastern North America by D. Wagner which looks helpful.
~K
You lost me! LOL! You are posting way too often for me to keep up. Slow down, will ya? Just joking.
Geez, Mary - my sister complains if I don't post enough, now you complain that I post too much.
A gal can't make her readers happy, LOL.
~K, who has several more posts stored up, so watch out
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