Tansy Biological Control - Cinnabar Caterpillar - Cool Bugs!

[vesaura18]

I've seen these caterpillars near a waterfall in Meru, Kenya, was amazed and took some pictures but had no idea what it was.

[blewEAGLE]

This is nature with bio control at its best! Gotta love these cool bugs! Oh yeah, these bugs don't cuddle, it up to the day flying moths to continue the legacy.

[blewEAGLE]

This is nature with bio control at its best! Gotta love these cool bugs!

[paulph12002]

I've seen some of these Cinnabar caterpillars at work near where I am too. They've stripped some 3ft high poisonous Tansy/Ragwort weeds of all their leaves and flowers in just a few days, and do a great job of controlling this poisonous plant. And they keep controlling it year after year too, because when the plants grow back the Cinnabar moth lays more eggs under the leaves which hatch into more caterpillars which then eat the new plants.

[inci00purple]

huh.. i never seen that bug before

[Doomguards]

U MAD QT? biolol

[iilikecereal]

so cute i think i saw two cuddleing