My wife found this very large caterpillar
on the ground in the grass. She knows I like little
"critters" and so she brought it to me to see. It was so
very large as caterpillars go. I did a search for big green
caterpillar and discovered that it was an imperial moth caterpillar.
This "critter" metamorphoses
into a beautiful moth that could easily be mistaken for a butterfly.
I know the old rule-of-thumb: if it
flies in the daytime it is a butterfly, if it flies at night it is a moth.
My wife put it back in the grass so that it could
develop in a beautiful moth. I am going to keep my eye out for a
pretty yellow and brown moth. Have a great day and enjoy nature
which is all around us. Lew
