Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Two caterpillar IDs - help needed, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
There were literally dozens and dozens of these caterpillars eating the waltheria indica plants out at the ranch.

Does anyone recognize these buggers? I put several into a cat cage but ended up tossing them back out onto the waltheria indica. I didn't bring any back to raise as I figured due to their immense numbers...they are no doubt a pesky good for nothing moth!

~ Cat

ps....this one is SOLVED!!! Got email on this one - turns out they are hieroglyphic moths (Diphthera festiva). I was right about these being pesky good for nothing moths! UGH!!! Oh well, they are colorful at least.


This message was edited Oct 12, 2008 8:43 AM