You can't quite tell from the picture but he was about 4 inches long and nearly as thick as my ring finger. I wasn't sure he was alive at first but when we poked him there was movement and clearly he had been eating because the vine he was on had no leaves left on it. The only logical thing to do after we found him was Google the heck out of it and we discovered that he is a Virginia Creeper Sphinx caterpillar. The next reasonable thing was to get him the heck away from the fire so I moved him onto a tree with lots more Virginia Creeper on it! |
Hanging out with the girls in the afternoon almost makes me stop missing Maine . . . almost!