Eating good in the neighborhood

[Ridgeratt]

Neighbor up the road and I went exploring this morning.  We found this critter on a elderberry bush.

[Ridgeratt]

One more picture.

About a 1/3 of the leaves had been eaten off the bush.

[Humptulips]

Klaus Shwab says it's what's for dinner.

[Fidelk]

Seen either the same or similar plowing through tomato plants......but not here in W. WA.

[nwwanderer]

I think that is going to be a big polyphemus moth, not a sphinx moth like a tomato horn worm, nice, thanks

[LDennis24]

Actually looks like a Luna moth caterpillar! Either species is a cool looking moth. You should have caught it and keep it in something until it pupates!

[Ridgeratt]

I poked it some and it wasn't moving. The only thing I could have put it in was my pocket.

[Ghost Hunter]

Grandkids would have loved to feed that to the fish.  They were giving the turkeys competition on the grasshoppers.

[boneaddict]

THats awesome.   Nice find.  I have a few nice pics of what he'll grow up into somewhere on here.

I was thinking Cecropia NWwanderer. Elderberry is a favorite host plant of theirs


Typically arent found in Washington, though I have photographed them here much to the dismay of a bunch of Butterfly experts. LOL   I'm not sure where Ridge is at these days.