Caterpillars in Your Yard and Garden
Silverspotted skipper
Skippers
Silverspotted skipper caterpillars (Epargyreus clarus) are present in summer and fall. They produce two to three generations per year.
The head of this nearly two-inch-long caterpillar is rusty-brown with a pair of large, conspicuous orange "eye spots" above the mouthparts. The first thoracic segment ("neck" region) is constricted and red-brown. The rest of the body is yellow-green with transverse narrow dark lines. Host plants are black locust, honey locust and wisteria.
About the family
Skippers are in the Hesperiidae family.
Contents
- Life cycle and key morphological features
- Achemon sphinx
- Armyworm
- Bagworm
- Banded woollybear
- Black cutworm
- Cabbage looper
- Catalpa sphinx
- Cecropia moth
- Clearwinged sphinx
- Crinkled flannel moth
- Dusty birch sawfly
- Eastern tent caterpillar
- Eight-spotted forester
- Elm sawfly
- European pine sawfly
- Fall webworm
- Garden webworm
- Gray furcula
- Green cloverworm
- Greenstriped mapleworm
- Hackberry emperor
- Hag moth
- Hickory horned devil
- Imperial moth
- Imported cabbageworm
- Io moth
- Linden looper
- Monarch caterpillar
- Monarch butterfly
- Orangedog
- Pale tussock moth
- Parsleyworm
- Pickleworm
- Polyphemus moth
- Poplar tentmaker
- Red-spotted purple caterpillars
- Roseslug
- Silverspotted skipper
- Smalleyed sphinx
- Spicebush swallowtail
- Spiny oak slug
- Stalk borer
- Stinging rose caterpillar
- Tiger swallowtail
- Tobacco hornworm and tomato hornworm
- Tomato fruitworm and corn earworm
- Unicorn caterpillar
- Variegated cutworm
- Variegated fritillary
- Viceroy
- Walnut caterpillar
- Whitelined sphinx
- Whitemarked tussock moth
- Yellow woollybear
- Yellownecked caterpillar
- Zebra swallowtail
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