this guy has been in the same position for a week now.
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I’m sorry but I hate those horn worms, they can defoliate a tomato plant in short time. Interesting fact, the mother moth only lays a few eggs per plant to assure the hatched caterpillars have enough food.
i left an old cookie sheet outside and it rained.a couple of days later i noticed these purple spots in about 1/4" water in the cookie sheet. i couldnt tell what they were so i used a pair of 25x glasses and saw what looked like life on an alien planet.
A few years ago one laid an egg pouch on a trellis in my garden. When they started hatching it was a riot. Those little suckers were like miniatures of the adults but seemed so much more aggressive, even cannibalistic. Didn’t have too many insect problems that year.
They also come in pink. The pink is the result of a genetic mutation causing the lack of normal green pigment.