Citizen Science Project:
Resemblances--Caterpillars and Wings

This page is under construction, but you can...

1) sign up to participate or take a leadership role
2) arrange to submit photos of apparent resemblances to the database
3) ask questions
4) submit suggestions

5) link to Appendix 1. Twenty-five Examples of Larva/Adult Resemblances
     from Wheye and Ehrlich, Are there caterpillars on butterfly wings?
     News of the Lepidopterists' Society,, Winter, 2015, Vol. 57(4)
6) link to Appendix 2. Seventeen Examples of Dot Patterns on Wing Margins
     from Wheye and Ehrlich, Are there caterpillars on butterfly wings?
     News of the Lepidopterists' Society, Winter, 2015, Vol. 57(4)

Papilionidae Pieridae Lycaenidae
Riodinidae Nymphalidae Hesperiidae




Photo credits
Adults:
© 2008 David Robacker; © 2009 Jim P. Brock; © 2009 Jim P. Brock;
© 2010 D.H. Janzen and W. Hallwachs voucher code 01-SRNP-2576.03;
http://janzen.bio.upenn.edu/caterpillars/database.lasso;
© 2009 Andrew Warren; ©2009 Kim Davis, Mike Stangeland & Andrew Warren

Larvae:
© 2007 Dan Hardy; © 2010 Jim P. Brock; © 2010 Jim P. Brock;
© 2010 D.H. Janzen and W. Hallwachs voucher code 01-SRNP-2576, http://janzen.bio.upenn.edu/caterpillars/database.lasso;
© 2009 Jim P. Brock; © 2011 D.H. Janzen and W. Hallwachs voucher code 06-SRNP-56548, http://janzen.bio.upenn.edu/caterpillars/database.lasso

Composite Adult/Larva: