Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Four O'Clocks a Host plant?, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
I am intrigued! Have been following your thread to find out what species those eggs belong to. Guess you're going to have to raise them and show us photos of the cats, chrysalids/cocoon and butterfly/moth/bug when the time is right.

I had some green caterpillars on my four o'clocks earlier this year. Never noticed eggs...but saw lots of silked up leaves where they made their nests. Lots of frass too. I had planned to raise a few caterpillars to see what they'd become but never made the time to collect them. Am assuming they were some type of moth...but alas, I'll never know for sure.

Here is one of the cats. Bright green with a tan head. You can see a little bit of the silk where I pulled the leaf open to photograph it. Perhaps a skipper of some kind but most likely a moth.

~ Cat