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Do you see anything different in this photo??
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...8/ed4afeb7.jpg
A catapillar! Very big and very fat....
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...5/ed4af14f.jpg
and very hungry....here you can see about 12 hours later....it has eaten most the leaves off a couple of branches!
I sure hope it makes a pretty butterfly!
Me too! I wonder what color it's wings will be?
Wow, that was one hungry caterpillar - and what a good disguise!! Amazing! Do you think his family were there too? A good thing the E's didn't notice, or was is too high for them? :D
At that rate, it's gonna be a fat butterfly, too. You will have to go on a diet, soon, little bug. :rolleyes:
Wow, I didn't spot it at all in the first picture. Perfect camouflage. Hope
that wasn't a favorite plant.
Gee whiz, how did YOU ever spot it to start with. I think it would be impossiable to see unless you were up close.
Oh no! Don't let Eddie see it.
I just went out to check on progress and could hardly find the guy! Took me quite a few minutes....
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...8/ed4a6796.jpg
http://www.imagestation.com/picture/...e/ed4a6b50.jpg
(A face only a mother could love!)
Not to worry....he is too high and too hidden for our boy Eddie.....
Thats a cute, fat caterpiller you have yourself there! :D
I think your friend might be either the "Tomato Hornworm" (Manduca
quinquemaculata L.) , which would turn into a Five-Spotted Hawk Moth (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manduca_quinquemaculata) -- or a "Tobacco Hornworm" (Manduca sexta L.) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_hornworm).
Heres some more strange-green caterpillars (i've always been facinated in insects!)
http://whatsthatbug.com/caterpillar_2.html (and)
http://bugguide.net/node/view/4747
Could you please take a ruler and measure the guy?
It's difficult to tell how big he is. Thanks, :)
A Tomato Hornworm??? :eek: OMG - keep it away from Lizbud!
My brain is differently wired than much of humanity, I guess - I immediately saw the caterpiggle, then wondered was kind of plant it was, but was also loooking for one of the E-cats - until I read the text!
I am like Karen I think - because I did see the critter right away, but I agree that it is excellent and amazing camouflage!!
It really does look like one of those moths that Blue Frog posted - do you think?? Maybe Freckles will have more ideas once she knows the size...
Could you perhaps clip off a branch or two with it and save it to a ventilated jar so that you can keep watching as it becomes a cocoon...pupa....chrysalis (whateever you call that stage) and then becomes moth or betterfly?? I used to do that when I was a girl - it was so interesting and then fun to release :)
Oh- I never saw a cat-a-pillar like this- do you think a kitten will come out ;)
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Originally Posted by Killearn Kitties
Will it ever end? LOL :D :D Seriously though, if you look at the first pic
right about in the middle is what looks like a sort of praying mantis type
insect. Does anyone else see it?