Comments on: A Visual Guide to 32 Types of Green Caterpillars in Your Garden

By: Cynthia

Cynthia — Tue, 21 May 2024 19:04:59 +0000

a community sent in an amazing picture of a caterpillar (smooth) with single line of dot then dash down back and a yellowish underbelly feeding on a snapdragon. I could find nothing to compare it to and looked at a lot of caterpillars. Anyone?

By: Kentuck

Kentuck — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 02:49:36 +0000

In reply to Linda Ly.

Thank You for the reply. Then I must be thinking of the Blue Swallowtail aka Pipevine Swallowtail. We were taught in school that this was the Black Swallowtail. The Blue Swallowtails have completely different looking Caterpillars. Thanks again for the reply! I stand corrected!

By: Linda Ly

Linda Ly — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 03:24:40 +0000

In reply to Kentuck.

That is 100% a black swallowtail caterpillar. You can see an image of a monarch caterpillar in my other post about striped caterpillars: https://gardenbetty.com/striped-caterpillars/

I’m guessing your red and black caterpillars might be early instars of the black swallowtail? As do they start off those colors before turning green in their final caterpillar stage.

By: Kentuck

Kentuck — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:05:50 +0000

Your Black Swallowtail Caterpillar is wrong, I believe it is a Monarch Butterfly Caterpillar but it is NOT a Black Swallowtail Butterfly caterpillar, as they are red and black. I know, because I raise them. 🙂

By: Eileen Lovett

Eileen Lovett — Tue, 15 Aug 2023 16:24:15 +0000

I have a Elphant Hawk Moth in my garden just looked it up as it doesn’t look like any caterpillar I have seen