Worm before the Butterfly
By Inlemay
@Inlemay (17714)
South Africa
April 24, 2016 10:47am CST
If this was the worm, imagine how beautiful the Butterfly.
Hello everyone.
Look what the cat dragged in, or should I say stumbled upon because this worm with its horn was having no dragging business by Picasso. Good grief it was huge. The size of the palm of my hand with a wiggly motion to ward off the cat that wanted to torment it to a certain death.
The rustle in the miniature bullrush plants at he pool alerted us, and this is what we found. Both myself, hubby and daughter have never seen such a Fat Sepciman of a Worm before and hubby has sent the photo to an outdoor program to see if they can identify it for us.
We decided to toss it over the wall to safe guard our cat, he he, as its horn looks like a mean stinging protection mechanism.
Have you any idea what it is?
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@Jessicalynnt (50525)
• Centralia, Missouri
24 Apr 16
what a big and bright bugger
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@rebelann (111164)
• El Paso, Texas
24 Apr 16
I saw this on wiki.......
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Tomato hornworm Scientific classification Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Sphingidae Genus: Manduca Species: M. quinquemaculata Binomial name M
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
24 Apr 16
mercy, 'twas that huge?? i fear i've nary a clue's to what type that'd be. 'course, i aint familiar with many'f the critters that live'n yer lands. i'm glad that'cha were able to rescue 't ('r was that the cat??) 'n hopefully yer gonna get'n answer to yer query soon.
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@crazyhorseladycx (39515)
• United States
25 Apr 16
@Inlemay perhaps that'd be its purpose? i've meant to do a search to see if'n i could figure what this'd be, but alas the time got 'way from me. so much to tend'n so lil time to do such these days.
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@Inlemay (17714)
• South Africa
25 Apr 16
@crazyhorseladycx its all good - when I hear from the national site, I'll keep you all posted on what the worm is about to transpire into
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@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
24 Apr 16
I think it is a caterpillar. I had seen one also when it fed on my chichirica plant. It gets so fat but beautiful with blue eyes and little horn.Late it will transform into a butterfly.
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@Tampa_girl7 (48929)
• United States
17 May 16
It s really quite pretty in color.
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@garymarsh6 (23393)
• United Kingdom
24 Apr 16
What a beautiful looking thing it is. I can imagine the butterfly is going to look gorgeous!
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@spiderdust (14741)
• San Jose, California
9 Sep 16
Look at those gorgeous markings! Did you figure out what kind of caterpillar it was? I'll admit, I haven't read all of the responses yet.
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