Dang Caterpillar

[sarracenia]

Found this caterpillar munching on my Sarracenia yesterday evening. So I took a few pics to try and identify it, then I noticed the pictures were turning out pretty nice - it was dusk and the flash was going off, so I snapped a few more while I was out there. Oh, and I never got a 100% positive ID on the caterpillar, although I think it is a fall webworm (Hyphantria cunea).

Here it is, after falling in while attempting to pick it off the plant. It soon crawled back out:

Here's the only damage I noticed:

and now for some of the other pics I took:

'Judith Adrian':

[(oreophila x flava) x leucophylla] x open-pollinated:

leucophylla x rubra gulfensis (antho-free):

'Fireworks':

'Boob Tube' x open-pollinated:

 

[cpsammich]

Nice

 

[thez_yo]

OMG that last one... burgundy minor

 

[cpsammich]

Yeah I needto get one of those this spring

 

[Exo]

I found that exact same species eating one of my nepenthes pitchers......KILL IT WITH FIRE!

 

[nightsky]

The Fireworks is my favorite. Love the colors!

 

[Brie]

Nice sarrs! Love the Fireworks and Judith Adrian.. Sucks bout the caterpillar though. :\ dang things.

 

[Wire Man]

Absolutely stunning plants! That last one has me drooling. The caterpillar deserves death by digestion.

 

[kulamauiman]

maybe arctiidae for family of caterpillar. i dunno that group at all not represented in Hawaii

 

[ellisonk001]

Nice pitchers! I agree with several others, the Fireworks is amazing....

Thanks for sharing!

 

[jbradt]

Great pics!