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Here’s one from the vaults. I found these in August, 2007, when these tent caterpillars were all over Jamaica Bay. However they weren’t ID’d until recently. This is the caterpillar of the Ailanthus Webworm Moth - Hodges 2401, Atteva punctella. In this case the moth is a lot prettier than the caterpillar: