Please help us identify a caterpillar and its diet requirements.

Subject: Please help us identify a caterpillar and its diet requirements.

Date: Tue Feb 24 10:23:57 2004
Posted by Mary Rose Castro
Grade level: K-3 School: home schooling pre-k
City: Highland Lakes State/Province: NJ Country: USA
Area of science: Zoology
ID: 1077639837.Zo

Message:


We found a caterpillar which has a rust colored body and a black head. We live 
in Northwestern New Jersey, USA, and it is currently snowing out. We thought 
it wouldn't surivive without our help. We brought it inside our house and 
would like to know what to feed it. It's fur is long and the caterpillar is 
about an inch and a half in length. Please send us info ASAP; we don't know 
how long it can survive without food.

Thanks a lot!
Sincerely Mary Rose Castro, Morgan, and Mai-Lani Castro (ages 3 1/2 and 2)

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