Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Giant Swallowtail cat on Wild Lime bush, 1 by LouisianaMark

LouisianaMark wrote:
On the subject of catepillar eyes, I got out my tripod, and was able to get some extreme closeups. I had remembered correctly, they have 6 tiny eyes, 3 on each side of the head. The 5th instar Giant Swallowtails have 2 dark spots on either side of the "hump". These are "false eyes" if you will.

Here's a pic of the false eyes. This one isn't too close up, and doesn't have good depth of field, cause I took it with the aperture wide open so I wouldn't have to use flash.

The actual head is below the white band on the front tip of the cat.