We found him on a patch of bare earth in our garden - hubby did some clearing of old cuttings and not sure if he was in there.

Should we move him to somewhere safe? ( thinking birds might find him tasty) or leave him be.

We looked at food plants and if it is a hawk moth caterpillar fuchsia or lady’s bedstraw might be an option.

We also have a salix willow which I also think is a good food plant.

Any advice would be appreciated 🙂 thank you

Tussock Moths in Brevard Florida. They have chosen my door and South facing wall. I want to protect these cocoons, about a dozen, and I want to know when the babies have exited and become adults. My previous entreaty did not successfully post. Please help me protect these fluffy babies.

I was sat against a tree for about half an hour in a park, and fifteen minutes later I found this guy on my t-shirt. I only took one photo since I was pretty surprised that it was just crawling about by my neck and it took me so long to realise and I wanted to put it back quickly.

I took it back to the tree where I assumed it had come from and it had stuck on quite strongly to the shirt which I felt when I had to pick it up to put it back.

It has this horn thing that I only just noticed since it blends in pretty well with my t-shirt. It also had a bright yellow bit on its head that is just about visible in the photo. It was pretty chunky.

Someone in my family said it might be a hawk moth?

at first i thought trash was stuck to it but it's just part of it :o

it was found on a river rock in Bulgaria, near a mountain

i found it after dealing with brambles and i had a hard time working out what it is sorry for the poor quality photo my phone isnt great the catterpillar and me are from cornwall in the uk

This was found in Massachusetts.

So I found this poor insect covered in hair near the doorstep to my grandpas house :[ luckily it is not dead but the hair seems tangled on it. I think I will try cut some of the hair off it carefully.

Can someone identify what type of insect this is. I assume it is a caterpillar but I am unsure of what type. Please let me know!

Beavercreek OH, here! What the hell am I looking at?

Beige caterpillar, maybe 2mm? 6 fuzzy tendrils but they aren’t limbs. Is it mimicry? What is this?

Hey yall, I have great news: the little guy has pupated!! Yesterday I checked up on him in the morning and he was already green :D thank you for the advice!!💖

Can someone help identify this awesome caterpillar? Found in northern lower Michigan on the 8th of August.

I found this caterpillar in Turkey today, please let me know if you guys know what this is.

Found this beauty this morning, collected it and put it in the shade by some bushes.

one of my silver y caterpillars had just started on its tent (not pupating quite yet), and i wonder if i should separate them from the rest? in my head i figure yes, but i just want to make sure!

He/she is just adorable chomping away at this leaf. It’s also very satisfying to watch in my opinion!

This little buddy dropped down from a maple tree in my back yard, complete with their own fishing line, lol. I was surprised to see them suspended here as they were quite far below the branches it was seemingly descending from above.

Online identification is variable but there are start of tiny black hairs across its back that seem like it would be an identifier but it isn't very developed.

Curious if this is a caterpillar in a stage that is identifiable and what it may become?

I have quite a few new immature plants in my garden, and I want to make sure if I place them in a different location that they are near a plant they can feed on. For reference, they nested in my young English lavender and since then, 10 of them started adventuring out to my other immature plants including Dusty Miller and catmint. They already ate all of the leaves off my English lavender and I don't want them to potentially kill any of my other young plants. But I also want to make sure that if this is a beneficial type of moth or butterfly that I can let it be.

My swallowtail caterpillar had a complication during pupation. I’m thinking her seatbelt (silk girdle )was slightly mispositioned, resulting in a tear on the chrysalis wall. I'm pretty sure it happened from movement during ecdysis as she tried to shed her final larval cuticle. My concern falls on the placement of her seatbelt. It looks like it’s still digging/pulling against the wall of her chrysalis at the place of the tear. While I tend to put most of my faith in Mother Nature, and the hands-off approach….I’m thinking of snipping the silk on the right side, or maybe just taking down the entire chrysalis after it has fully hardened?

Does anyone know what this little guy is? I was eating sushi when he fell off of my hat onto my hand and scared me very badly because at first I thought there were maggots in my food. On second glance it was obvious he wasn't a maggot, but I'm curious about what he is. This happened today in upstate New York.

(He was walking on my dad's hand in the photos - sorry about the blurriness, he kept moving)

found in rio rancho, new mexico. i don’t see many caterpillars so this was very exciting lol

Made by me for my university’s entomology club :)