Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: ID for caterpillar, 1 by rcn48

rcn48 wrote:
Thanks for the link - unfortunately I had already looked at all those photos - some were close but no cigar :)

claypa, it IS an amazing caterpillar and would really love to identify it. Unfortunately we were out of town for several days and now I can't find him. I had taken some great close ups but because they were taken so late in the day and I had turned off the flash, they all came out fuzzy :( The spots on the side are really quite red, not orange. In the morning, when this photo was taken, he could crawl back down to the base of the plant and 'hang' there with its head shown on the bottom of the photo. Edited the photo below - the arrow points to the head. Don't know how to describe it, but the two brown 'spots' look like feathery fans? I wasn't brave enough to pick him up to get better photos, was stung by a Saddleback earlier this summer and didn't care to experience that again :(

Does anyone of another site where I could post the picture for ID?