Today, our new student, Christian brought in a rather fat caterpillar his brother found walking on the pavement. It looked very reminiscent of the sphinx moth caterpillars that we hatched last year (see our old webpage). It was a purplish green caterpillar with faint diagonal stripes along the sides of each segment. |
There are hundreds of different species of Sphingidae moths. Many overwinter underground as pupae, which explains our caterpillar digging a tunnel in the dirt we provided. We'll watch to see if it pupates.