Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Caterpillar ID - dried blooms, buds and leaves stuck to it?, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Howdy All,

Does anyone know what kind of caterpillar this is??? This is one heck of a camouflaged cat!!!

I found it on my duranta purple sky flower bush. It is about 3/4 long and moves along in an inch worm fashion. It is a purplish mauve color with white feet and a white head.

It does not appear to be preparing to pupate - but yet it has all sorts of debris stuck to it - pieces of dried duranta blooms, buds and leaves. It just moves along munching as it goes. I found it when I was tracking a trail of cat poo :o)

Am in the south tip of Texas (zone 9).

~ Cat