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Posted: **Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:26 pm**

Can anyone help with the identification of this caterpillar? You can't see it on the pic. but it had two black lines across the back just below the head.

Pale Tussock?

Thanks.

Posted: **Tue Aug 23, 2022 3:32 pm**

Looks like a fairly early instar Pale Tussock moth caterpillar

Posted: **Tue Aug 23, 2022 6:23 pm**

Thanks.

What does the term "instar" mean?

Posted: **Tue Aug 23, 2022 8:05 pm**

Lawts wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 6:23 pm Thanks.

What does the term "instar" mean?

Caterpillars go through typically 5 stages of growth. Each stage is called an "instar." As a caterpillar grows, it "molts" 5 times before it becomes a chrysalis. Each time it molts the caterpillar progresses to the next instar (1st instar, 2nd instar, 3rd instar, 4th instar and 5th instar)

Posted: **Fri Sep 02, 2022 9:36 pm**

Charles Nicol wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 8:05 pm
Lawts wrote: ↑Tue Aug 23, 2022 6:23 pm Thanks.

What does the term "instar" mean?
Caterpillars go through typically 5 stages of growth. Each stage is called an "instar." As a caterpillar grows, it "molts" 5 times before it becomes a chrysalis. Each time it molts the caterpillar progresses to the next instar (1st instar, 2nd instar, 3rd instar, 4th instar and 5th instar)

Thanks Charles.

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