#caterpillar  a wormlike and often brightly colored and hairy or spiny larva of a butterfly or moth
  supertype:  larva  the immature free-living form of most invertebrates and amphibians and fish which at hatching from the egg is fundamentally unlike its parent and must metamorphose
  member of:  order_Lepidoptera
  subtype:  tussock_caterpillar__tussockcaterpillar  larva of a tussock moth
  subtype:  cankerworm  green caterpillar of a geometrid moth; pest of various fruit and shade trees
     subtype:  spring_cankerworm  variably colored looper; larva of Paleacrita vernata
     subtype:  fall_cankerworm  green or brown white-striped looper; larva of Alsophila pometaria
  subtype:  measuring_worm__measuringworm__inchworm__looper  small hairless caterpillar having legs on only its front and rear segments; mostly larvae of moths of the family Geometridae
  subtype:  potato_tuberworm__Phthorimaea_operculella  larva of potato moth; mines in leaves and stems of e.g. potatoes and tobacco
  subtype:  cutworm  North American moth whose larvae feed on young plant stems cutting them off at the ground
     subtype:  Chorizagrotis_auxiliaris__army_cutworm  noctuid moth larvae that travel in large groups and destroy grains and alfalfa in the Plains states
  subtype:  army_worm__Pseudaletia_unipuncta  noctuid moth larvae that travel in multitudes destroying especially grass and grain
  subtype:  beet_armyworm__Spodoptera_exigua  moth larva that eats foliage of beets and vegetables
  subtype:  fall_armyworm__Spodoptera_frugiperda  larva of a migratory American noctuid moth; destroys grasses and small grains
  subtype:  tobacco_hornworm__tobaccohornworm__tomato_worm__Manduca_sexta  large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tobacco and related plants; similar to tomato hornworm
  subtype:  tomato_hornworm__potato_worm__Manduca_quinquemaculata  large green white-striped hawkmoth larva that feeds on tomato and potato plants; similar to tobacco hornworm
  subtype:  silkworm  hairless white caterpillar of the Chinese silkworm moth; source of most commercial silk
  subtype:  giant_silkworm__giantsilkworm__silkworm__wild_wilkworm  larva of a saturniid moth; spins a large amount of strong silk in constructing its cocoon
     subtype:  ailanthus_silkworm__ailanthussilkworm__Samia_cynthia  large green silkworm of the cynthia moth
  subtype:  tent_caterpillar  the larvae of moths that build communal silken webs in orchard and shade trees
     subtype:  forest_tent_caterpillar__Malacosoma_disstria  larvae of a gregarious North American moth that spins a carpet rather than a tent; serious defoliator of deciduous trees
  subtype:  lappet_caterpillar  larva of a lappet moth
  subtype:  webworm  several gregarious moth larvae that spin webs over foliage on which they feed
     subtype:  fall_webworm__Hyphantria_cunea  a variety of webworm
     subtype:  garden_webworm__Loxostege_similalis  a variety of webworm
  subtype:  corn_borer__Pyrausta_nubilalis  larva of the European corn borer moth; a serious pest of maize
  subtype:  bollworm  any of various moth caterpillars that destroy cotton bolls
     subtype:  pink_bollworm__Gelechia_gossypiella  larvae of a gelechiid moth introduced from Asia; feeds on the seeds of cotton bolls
     subtype:  corn_earworm__cotton_bollworm__tomato_fruitworm__tobacco_budworm__tobaccobudworm__vetchworm__heliothiszia  larva of a noctuid moth; highly destructive to especially corn and cotton and tomato crops
  subtype:  cabbageworm__pierisrapae  toxic green larva of a cabbage butterfly
  subtype:  woolly_bear_caterpillar__woolly_bear  caterpillar of numerous moths characterized by a dense coat of woolly hairs; feed on plants and some are destructive pests
     subtype:  woolly_bear_moth  larva of moth of the family Arctiidae

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