Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Can someone ID this fuzzy yellow caterpillar?, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Not sure but it looks very much like the caterpillars I raised. They were feeding on duranta repens. They did not do very much damage as they are big bushes. They are a nuisance to me as I was looking for caterpillars of the rare marius hairstreak butterflies that were feeding on my duranta last September. Each time I tracked the frass trail I ended up finding one of them. Phooey! I still raised about ten of them and set them free...but I'd rather raise butterflies!

They ended up being small moths...tiger family I think. I will post a photo of the caterpillar, the cocoon and one of the moths that eclosed.



~ Cat

Here's the catepillar

This message was edited Sep 3, 2006 2:38 PM