No. 36 The Red Palmer
This is the caterpillar of the garden tiger-moth. This palmer is found early in the spring, and is chiefly recommended for streams where trees overhang the water. Cuvier states that this caterpillar changes its skin ten times during its growth.
Imitation
Body.—Peacock’s herl, with a red cock’s hackle wrapped the whole length, and tied with red silk.
Ronalds’s palmers are made long, and have a second hook tied in about half way up the body. It is a killing fly in streams, and of little use in ponds in the United States.