Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Please ID these caterpillars, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
You know I've got a back yard full of larval hosts - many which overlap somewhat. Am terrible at cutting back (pruning) so they often get intertwined and covered by some of my nectar plants...funny thing is I've never had a butterfly lay eggs on the wrong leaves.

Perhaps there was some type of chemical residue on your plants? That had not occured to me until you mentioned it. Hopefully the newest leaves will do the trick. My BSTs will be praying for your BSTs :o)

Which by the way, the eggs I noticed a few days ago have all hatched. Got gobs of teeny tiny cats on the rue. I need to take those plants over to the neighbor to watch over since I'll out of town for several weeks. His young son is into raising butterflies this year so hopefully my giving him different species to raise will keep him interested.

~ Cat