Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Perth EMC mentions my work on caterpillar eyespots!

My supervisor gave a talk on his predator-prey evolutionary ecology work a while back for the Mississippi Valley Field Naturalists (MVFN) public lecture series. The work of our lab, including a shout out to my work on caterpillar eyespots, was covered in this lecture and is summarized in this article by the EMC News:

http://www.emcperth.ca/20111215/news/Creatures+evolved+to+survive+in+the+natural+world

Monday, 13 February 2012

Another eyespot caterpillar video (Sphingidae)

Here is a video of two eyespot caterpillars from the Sphingidae family.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy8YcUHreAo

Not sure what species, but I will try to update this post if/when I find out. They look to be about the same size so these may be two colour morphs (green and brown)