Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Some of my 'entertainment' .. II, 1 by Magpye

Magpye wrote:
What on earth .. is this 'grub' lookin' crawly catepillar ? ... Pic #1 ...

He's got some mighty interesting 'coloration' to him. And, he seems to resemble the underside wing 'patterns/colors', of a few much smaller sized butterflies I've seen earlier this year ..

However .. I'm a wee bit baffled .. by the way he seems to hold his 'day-ree-air' up from what ever he crawls onto. And those two (what
look like) lil bitty black 'beads' on top of his head .. I believe, are his eyes .. (but I haint puttin' no money on it tho'!) .. hee hee

I've been trying to find his ID on the internet .. but have yet to find hide nor hair, nor narry a tid bit about this critter .. He'd been heading toward the already-died-back Astilbe, but I figger the Astilbe just happened to be 'in his path' - when I hoisted him up onto the porch railing, to get a better view of his 'grub-like' appearance. I sortee lost track of him, when I came in to upload the pics I'd taken. He
was long gone when I returned to the porch ...

- Magpye