I’m fairly new to iNat in terms of actually being active on a regular basis, but I find myself repeatedly hitting this particular wall. I live in BC and I focus on moths, but I don’t even know where to start with the caterpillars – for instance, there have been several times where I’ve seen a caterp…

I’ve been hitting the same wall. I know David L. Wagner wrote a guide to the caterpillars of eastern NA. I think I read somewhere that he had a similar guide in the works for the West. Maybe we just have to wait.

Just spent some time with David Wagner in the Mojave - he’s still working on it and was collecting caterpillars out here. He was also recently featured in The New Yorker : Wagner’s “ Caterpillars of Eastern North America ,” published in 2005, runs to nearly five hundred pages. It relates the life hi…

Lepidoptera of the Pacific Northwest: Caterpillars and Adults. By Jeffrey C. Miller & Paul C. Hammond. Published by the USDA Forest Service. FHTET-2003-03. December 2003. 324 pages.

Thank you for the resource! Available for free on Google Books too – will definitely make use of this while waiting for the more comprehensive Caterpillars of Western North America mentioned earlier in this thread.

ID guide for caterpillars in the PNW or in Canada

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ID guide for caterpillars in the PNW or in Canada

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