This time I need some guidance from you folks. My outdoor bulbs are blooming. This year seems to be a terrible one for the destruction of blooms from chewing caterpillars. I assume that a moth or butterfly laid the eggs in the early bud. I haven't found good insect information from my sources so appreciate help. Is this at least a caterpillar of a particularly beautiful butterfly, if I am going to lose the majority of the flowers this spring?

Got my questionanswered, army worm caterpillar. That explains the chewed up leaves that I have been seeing for the past 3 weeks. I guess that I will have to hand pick each morning. I see that it is also a pest of Florida lawns. I realized that this is the kind of "worm" that you see in corn. Normally I would expect to see slugs on the Amaryllis, so this is a new one for me. !

Army worms invade my oaks every year for the past few years, but I have not seen them on my Amaryllis. The convict caterpillars are the ones I see on my Amaryllis.

So sorry!