Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Need help with identity, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Oh and here's a caterpillar photo...I can't remember if this is a Tawny or Hackberry cat - but I think it's a Hackberry caterpillar. Aren't the little horns so cute?!

That's also a good photo of the Tawny larvae on Dale Clark's website.

Either way, this cat kept crawling round and round this fence post. I watched it circle the top of the post over and over again :o) I finally took pity on it and put in on a nearby hackberry tree.

Yes, they make leaf nests when they pupate but they still crawl around to eat and look for new leaves.

~ Cat

ps...the Emperors out here use Sugar Hackberry (Celtis laevigata) as a larval host tree.

This message was edited Oct 2, 2008 3:49 PM