Saddleback caterpillar portrait

A face only a mother could love perhaps, or a case of beauty is in the eye of the beholder? Reminds me of a bear in some ways.

 

Saddleback caterpillar anterior shot of 'face'.

 

The venom-tipped urticating spines are embedded along the setae, seen protruding from the tubercles around the head.

 

20 mm length

 

Link to posterior view: www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/36697054653/in/photos...

 

Link to dorsal view: www.flickr.com/photos/112623317@N03/53339095825/in/datepo...

 

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