A milkweed tussock moth caterpillar feasting on a milkweed plant, displaying their distinctive black, orange, and white stripes.

The larvae are hairy with a black and white stripe down the back, with brown and yellow lines on the sides, and a horizontal row of oval blue spots on the sides. Mature caterpillars are 2 to 2.5 ...

The fully grown caterpillars are just as attractive with colorful alternating stripes of greenish-white and black with six yellow dots embedded in each black stripe.

Caterpillars happily eat wild cherry, tulip tree, cottonwood, sweetbay, willow and white ash. Grow these butterfly host plants to attract pollinators. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Caterpillars ...

Wings have bold black stripes on a white or teal-white background. ... Zebra swallowtail caterpillars are mostly green with one thicker blue, black and yellowish band close to the head.

There’s also an old myth that striped woolly bear caterpillars—a particular species with orange and black stripes—can predict the severity of a winter. As the tale goes, if you see them in ...

This caterpillar comes from eggs laid on a variety of plants by a moth, with brown or purple-to-red wings with a span of 2-3 inches. The caterpillars are lime green with a reddish and white stripe ...

Baby black swallowtail butterflies are beautiful and common. Sue Pike [email protected]. We have a large patch of bronze fennel growing out back — this is unfortunate because it can ...