Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
Pattern highly variable; typically bright green with pale subdorsal stripes and distinctive brown or purple V-shaped saddle atop third and fourth abdominal segments. Greenish head flattened with lateral reddish band edged outwardly with yellow and inwardly with white and black bands. Food: general feeder but especially common on sugar maple, beeches, and apples. Caterpillar: July to August; 2 generations.
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/insects/cateast/hetegutt.htm
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