Yellow Caterpillar With Black Spots. They are most often found in europe during the hottest the bright green caterpillar with yellow and black slashes and a blue tail is called a cecropia moth. A yellow fuzzy caterpillar with spikes is a caterpillar of the american dagger moth.
Login or register to post comments. Black with long brown hairs, red spots on top and a line of white marks along each side. Caterpillar of butterfly rhyparia purpurata. Hyles euphorbiae, caterpillar yellow with black spots along body, hanging branch sitting on stem of grass, head out of focus.
Both lepidopteran and symphytan larvae.
They have dense yellow setae (short hairs covering the body) that are mildly poisonous. It is also called the hairy caterpillar. Today (8/29/14) my hubby found this beautiful caterpillar in our backyard. Most caterpillars at nisqually are found on lupine while some were spotted tussock moth, lophocampa maculata.
