Viewing post #921947 by beckygardener

Chuck - Well, I screamed and dropped it! Then realized what it was and picked it back up to closely examine it to determine what caterpillar species it was. I raise and release caterpillars/butterflies. We also do that in my classroom at school. (And my granddaughters loves them, too.) So I handle a lot of caterpillars. Most caterpillars around here though, don't get nearly as big as those moth caterpillars get! They are quite large and heavy compared to all others! They are really neat insects!

When I first started trying to attract hummingbirds to my yard, I saw those moths zipping around and thought for several weeks that they were hummers until I managed to get a photo of one and realized it was an insect, not a little bird. I didn't see my very first official hummingbird till a year later. Once I saw the difference in flight, I can tell which is which, but they sure fooled me until then!