Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Caterpillar Identification...Help!, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
Cat - I have seen something similar on my Pink Gaura plant. It looked like caterpillars. Very, tiny cats. Which means it would have to be a very small butterfly in the adult stage. But I could not be sure. It could have been a larvae of some other bug, too. But ..... they do leave a casing behind. So it looks like they do go into some kind of chrysalis or cocoon or morphing stage. Here is a photo of the empty casings. I guess I will just have to raise the next little critter I find just so I can figure out what it is! I don't have any on my plant currently, but will keep my eyes open. The wasps are terrible this time of year and I'm lucky ANYTHING survives in my yard. Too bad they don't like MW bugs and Cuban Tree frogs. LOL!