My ladybugs were a bit orangey too, and it must be the warm weather bringing them out here too!!!

Thanks for the caterpillar info Cass, somehow I knew it would be you that answered me!!! I didn't kill them, I just put them on the other side of my fence, so maybe I will see some beautiful butterflies, although it is getting a little late in the year.

We've had another "visitor" but I can't even explain this bug, I'll have to get a picture of it--it's huge, and we call it the bird when it comes outside the house.