Texas Gardening: catalpa tree...................what's up with this?, 0 by fly_girl

fly_girl wrote:
I think they only eat the Catalpa, but you probably have a different kind of moth or butterfly cat on the Duranta. Do you have a picture?
If you put the catalpa cats on another plant they will die, they are picky eaters.
They crawl to the ground and dig a 2 or 3" hole to pupate. I don't think they will bite or hurt you, the horn is just a scare tactic.

Here's a pic of two, they can be light or dark