I have a friend who is, shall we say, very much in to penguins. She now has me seeing penguin images everywhere; including on a caterpillar I saw this morning at the Whetstone Park of Roses in Columbus, OH. I have been advised by Prof. Johnson of OSU’s Department of Evolution, Ecology & Organismal Biology that this is a forest tent caterpillar (scientific name ‘Malacosoma disstria’). He also mentioned that despite the name, this species does not build tents. He reports that the American tent caterpillar (‘M. americanum’) does; he has some in his own back yard. The image is now available as a Greeting Card and on mugs and other gift items.
With my consolidation of Authorized Production Partners moving forward, these images are no longer available at CafePress. This post will be updated in the future.
