Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Tiger Swallowtail caterpillar eating my tulip poplar leaves, 0 by LindaTX8

LindaTX8 wrote:
Since I've raised those, I thought about why they have those silky webs to rest on in the later instars. I have a few theories. First, maybe it help them stay on the leaves if wind gets bad. Or if rainy, it might help them stay dry if rain is running over the leaf. If it webs two leaves together in such a way that one is partly over the cat, It might not only help with rain, it could also help them hide from predators while it's doing an instar...or at any time. Just my thoughts on that. Here's one with 2 leaves webbed together. And Jeff, congrats on the visitors to your host plants and so glad you posted!