IO Moth Caterpillar

LOL.......I have a big yard with BUNCHES of plants ! I garden mostly for wildlife so I can't get upset if things get eaten and look horrible because they're full of holes. And since I can't use pesticides you have to take the bad with the good. There's usually one kind of insect that helps control/eat another kind of insect though so things try to balance out, sometimes anyway.
I really wish something would come and eat all of these darned Japanese Beatles though !

I feel your pain with the japaese beetles , friend ! All those spikes on his one reminds me of our saddleback caterpillar, I've already been stung by the darn things four times this year. ! I'll have to post a pic soon. At least this one turns into a lovely moth !

Four times Flcrazy !!! Wowee, you must have a lot of those little stingers ! Please post a pic ! I found a little one the other day on a milkweed leaf, of all places ! I think he must have gotten blown there or something. I plucked the leaf and was bringing it to the house to get a pic and he jumped off the leaf somewhere on the way (funny picture in my head of a slug caterpillar jumping.......hummmm). So I never got a pic of him. Now that it has rained (finally !! ) maybe I'll run into another one while I'm weeding. I hope I don't find him by getting stung though !

This is the time of year for finding lots of the stinging slug caterpillars, so gardeners be on the lookout. Thankfully most of them are in trees.