Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily pictures #97, 4 by Lily_love

Lily_love wrote:
Viceroy, congrats on your success. Nice job. Russell beautiful pixs as always. hemlady sorry that the Monarchs have some kind of disease there in Michigan. I brought most of my Monarch caterpillars indoor and raise them hoping to avoid wasps that parasitized these caterpillars and keep them safe from other predators in the garden.

Oh has anyone seen this before? It's my first. A Monarch caterpillar that has a head shape that looks like a skipper's caterpillar! And the head is vividly black and not stripped like the rest of other larva of its kind. What's your thought?