Caterpillars
Secret Companion Caterpillar Secret Companion Caterpillar
Secret Companion Caterpillar migrates between the East and West coasts of the United States each year. To do so it relies on transportation by motor vehicles. With an intuitive sense of direction they hop on and off of cars, trucks, rvs, and trailers at rest stops, gas stations, and restaurants, secretly hitchhiking their way across the country. They are most abundant on Interstates 40 and 80 but are also present along Interstates 10, 20, 70, and 90.
Secret Companion Caterpillar is characterized by six brightly colored bands that mimic the spectrum of a rainbow. Its rainbow-like appearance has led to a fitting nickname, the Traveling Rainbow.
Glass Pusher Caterpillar 
Glass Pusher Caterpillar
Glass Pusher Caterpillar wanders around collecting broken glass, nudging the remnants of soda and beer bottles from bushes and walking trails into a colorful translucent pile. It creates a nest around the glass, depositing eggs on the sticky glass. It is a caterpillar anomaly, reproducing and remaining a caterpillar for the duration of its life.
Glass Pusher Caterpillar is easily identified by its long, soft, shaggy coat of bristles that are maroon at the skin and lighten at the ends.
Line Crawler Caterpillar Line Crawler Caterpillar
High up on the power lines, Line Crawler Caterpillar moves along, visible only to the keenest of observers. Its aqua blue body and black head and rear serve as valuable camouflage against blue skies and the dark trapeze world of elevated power lines, helping to protect it from birds and other predators. Its stealth appearance combined with a remarkable ability to jump allow it to feast on bugs and food crumbs dropped by birds, rats, and squirrels. The remains of their black, hairy cocoons are often found inside of tennis shoes that have been tied together and swung over power lines. Line Crawler Caterpillar recognizes the shoes as a means for extra cover and protection, utilizing them during its transition to maturity.
Non-native Violet Caterpillar Non-native Violet Caterpillar
With its striking purple and lavender coat Non-Native Violet Caterpillar blends in with African Violets, devouring flowers and leaves until only it remains. At a glance eaten African Violets appear intact. Upon closer observation though you'll find this fuzzy caterpillar, banded with purple, white, and lavender resting before beginning a search for more.
Non-Native Violet Caterpillar eats only cultivated African Violets. It will not approach wild African Violets.
Provide Non-Native Violet Caterpillar with a steady supply of cultivated African Violets to keep it from eating yours.
Raptor's Peril Caterpillar 
Raptor's Peril Caterpillar
Raptor's Peril Caterpillar wanders below windmills on wind farms, devouring the carcasses of fallen birds. While it particularly thrives on the remains of raptors it will also feast on a large variety of other birds, crows excluded. Raptor's Peril Caterpillar is also occasionally found lingering below power lines and communication towers.
This caterpillar's beautiful coat can be attributed to its bird-specific diet. It exhibits a showy display of long grey-brown hairs, decorated with dark brown stripes, contrasting shorter tan-colored intermittently striped hair. Its stripes and soft wispy tufts are reminiscent of the magnificent aviators on which it feasts.
Tiny Wasp Eater Caterpillar Tiny Wasp Eater Caterpillar
Tiny Wasp Eater Caterpillar is characterized by a soft coat of alternating hot pink and orange bands. It is most often found in farmland areas where Trichogramma Wasps are released to kill caterpillars that feed on crops. Tiny Wasp Eater Caterpillar eggs produce a vapor both irrestible and toxic to wasps, drawing them away from other caterpillar eggs. When the caterpillars hatch they eat the wasps that have fallen victim to their vapors.
Frisky Flyer Caterpillar Frisky Flyer Caterpillar
Where there are kitties, there are Frisky Flyers. Frisky Flyer Caterpillar jumps on cats, riding on their backs until they are fed. It then jumps off of the cat and nibbles away, sharing the meal. Interestingly, cats don't seem to mind Frisky Flyer riding around on them and eating their food. While a smaller caterpillar may ocassionally be mistakenly eaten, mature caterpillars emit a scent that allows them to be easily distinguished from cat food.
Frisky Flyer Caterpillar is characterized by alternating diagonal red and brown bands. Its bands form a checkerboard pattern on its belly.
Algae Mimic Caterpillar Algae Mimic Caterpillar
Algae Mimic Caterpillar is found on sloths in captivity. Like its cousins, the Sloth Moths, Algae Mimic Caterpillar lives exclusively in the fur of sloths. It is sustained by secretions from the sloth's skin. In return it deposits a translucent green gel-like substance on to the fur of the sloth, replacing lost mold and algae growth that would naturally occur on the sloth in the wild.
Algae Mimic Caterpillar is characterized by four alternating lime green and brown bands, its last lime green band bordered on either side by narrow white bands. While captive sloths do not generally have predators to worry about Algae Mimic Caterpillar does not recognize this absence. Its colors attempt to camoflauge itself and its sloth and its movement is matched in carefulness.
Cinema Sweeper Caterpillar Cinema Sweeper Caterpillar
If you have ever felt like something was touching your foot (or even your arm) in a movie theatre you may have had an encounter with a Cinema Sweeper Caterpillar. Cinema Sweeper Caterpillar crawls around under your seat, searching for fallen or abandoned theatre food while you watch your movie. While they typically avoid confrontation with people they occasionally stray from their trail to retrieve that one or dozen pieces of deliciously buttery popcorn that fell beside your feet. On occasion they may even crawl up your chair.
Cinema Sweeper Caterpillar has soft burgundy fur with a black leopard print design all over. Long, delicate white bristles extend vertically down the length of its body. These white bristles behave like "feelers" that help it navigate theatre space. Its black leopard-like spots continue through its white bristles, creating a more pronounced pattern when laid flat. Its coloring creates the perfect disguise, allowing it to move around dark movie theatres without being detected. Between movies, when the lights are turned up, Cinema Sweeper Caterpillar attaches itself to the underside of theatre seats, quietly waiting for its next descent.
Dye Chaser Caterpillar 
Dye Chaser Caterpillar
Dye Chaser Caterpillar is characterized by an alternating set of light pink and hot pink bands and a love for dyed flowers. It can be found in commmerically dyed lots of carnations, munching away on the carnations' long green leaves. It is irresistibly drawn to the dye within these plants, abandoning naturally colored florals for their erratically colored reincarnates. When available it will sample the leaves of dyed roses or mums and will rarely pass up an offering of daisies.
Rock Fizz Caterpillar 
Rock Fizz Caterpillar
When a Pop Rocks butterfly mates with a Black Rock Desert butterfly Rock Fizz caterpillars are made. Rock Fizz Caterpillar prefers a dry climate and is often found in desert areas near urban centers. It is not equipped with the ability to shield itself from sandstorms as the Black Rock Desert caterpillar is and so must take shelter in rocky areas or retreat to the city during storms. It prefers a diet of hard candy and all things sweet and fizzy, finding itself irresistibly drawn to the aroma of such things.
Rock Fizz Caterpillar's coloring may appear in any combination of colors characteristic of the Pop Rocks Caterpillar (lavender, hot pink, aqua, lime) but has stripes like Black Rock Desert Caterpillar. Its coat is ultra soft like Pop Rocks Caterpillar, making it an extra cuddly companion.
Masked Clover Caterpillar Masked Clover Caterpillar
As an avid clover hunter, Masked Clover Caterpillar seeks out lush patches of clover to feast on. It devours shamrocks one by one, leaving behind only four-leaf clovers and any five or more leaved gems that it may find. It is a mutation in the clover plant that causes more than three leaves to grow and Masked Clover Caterpillar can detect that mutation.
Masked Clover Caterpillar is thought to be a research escapee, the result of a scientific collaboration between biologists and entymologists working on alternative means for commerical four-leaf clover production.
Masked Clover Caterpillar is characterized by a white mask around its eyes, contrasting its rich, soft green coat.
Bark Beetle Caterpillar Bark Beetle Caterpillar
This light brown and black caterpillar was genetically engineered to eradicate bark beetle populations in areas where the growing presence of bark beetles has caused widespread destruction of forest trees. Bark Beetle Caterpillar emits a high frequency sound that stuns the beetles, making them an easy feast for the caterpillar.
Bark Beetle caterpillar is characterized by a soft light brown coat of bristles with longer thin patches of black and white scattered uniformly throughout.
Snow Angel Caterpillar 
Snow Angel Caterpillar
This fluffy white caterpillar can be found in snow-covered towns and villages. Once a ground burrowing caterpillar, Snow Angel Caterpillar can now be seen wriggling around on snow-covered ground, its movements displacing the snow to uncover tasty frozen treats beneath. It is believed that this caterpillar learned this behavior by mimicking children who made angels in the snow. At the end of the day Snow Angel Caterpillar still burrows but does so through the snow, creating a little cavern where it can rest until it is time to wriggle again.
Snow Angel Caterpillar has an ultra soft, pure white coat of fur.
Mint Leaf Caterpillar 
Mint Leaf Caterpillar
Mint Leaf Caterpillar was engineered to protect mint plants from total destruction by other varieties of caterpillar. They are able to recognize the scent of other Mint Leaf caterpillars, enabling them to work together as they battle the caterpillars that try to eat the mint leaves from their plants. Mint Leaf caterpillars find nourishment in the leaves that fall from their plants but will also accept offerings of mint candies made with real essential oils.
Snack Embezzler Caterpillar Snack Embezzler Caterpillar
You may find yourself inviting this cute little caterpillar onto your picnic blanket when you spot him wandering nearby. That may be followed by an innocent offering from your apple or a little piece of lettuce from your sandwich. Little do you know, a hundred of this caterpillar's close friends wait nearby...
Snack Embezzler Caterpillar has a voracious appetite and like ants they send out scouts in search of food. When a cache of food is found they follow one another in a colorful single file line to fill their bellies. They particularly favor the foods they find at picnics, processed foods being a favorite.
Snack Embezzler Caterpillar is characterized by its bright red head and alternating lime and grass green colored stripes. They are capable of growing to enormous sizes. This one is about 20.5 inches long and 7 inches in diameter.
Autumn Traveler Caterpillar Autumn Traveler Caterpillar
You might find this guy rustling through that pile of leaves you just raked up. More likely though, he'll be creeping around the various Halloween decorations and carved pumpkins in the front yard in October, his orange and brown stripes forming the perfect disguise. This caterpillar is drawn to the color orange. This interesting color attraction draws it into residential areas each Autumn, where it adventures through seasonal pumpkin patches and other orange neighborhood attractions in search of a yummy feast of fungi.
Crumb Divvy Caterpillar Crumb Divvy Caterpillar
This soft lavender and lime striped caterpillar appears in the places where ducks and squirrels are fed by frequent visitors with leftover bread. They huddle together to muster up a bite but do so gently so as not to break into fight. In a park, at a pond, in places beyond, they'll crawl out to the crumbs of which they are fond.
Toadstool's Keeper Caterpillar 
Toadstool's Keeper Caterpillar
Toadstool's Keeper Caterpillar resides in enchanted forests, magical places sustained by the human imagination. There it is said to be the protector of giant toadstools and a guide to new imaginators who enter. It is easily recognized in its black and white coat, a vivid display amongst the many colors of the forest.
Sapsucker Caterpillar Sapsucker Caterpillar
Sapsucker Caterpillar follows in the path of the sapsucker woodpeckers, eating the sap that oozes from wounded trees. During the Winter holiday season a surge in the Sapsucker Caterpillar population occurs as they are drawn to the thousands of freshly cut fir and pine trees destined for Christmas tree lots. A few of these caterpillars make it into living rooms where they go unnoticed amongst the whimsy of candy canes, shiny bulbs, and lights. Often they wander off and may be spotted in Junipers and Maples into the new year.
Sapsucker Caterpillar is characterized by a soft coat of white bristles, dotted all over with long red spikes.
Fallen Star Caterpillar Fallen Star Caterpillar
This caterpillar can be found around the outskirts of fairgrounds and open-air sports arenas where they have been spotted munching on the fallen remains of fireworks displays. Recently they have been showing up in residential neighborhoods due to the popularity of consumer fireworks. They begin to appear around the beginning of Summer but become increasingly common through July. The residues ingested from the fireworks are responsible for the bright patches and spikes of color that develop in this caterpillar's normally solid black coat of fur.
The concept for this caterpillar was contributed by Jesse, a Mutant Caterpillar owner in PA.
A Fool's Treasure Caterpillar A Fool's Treasure Caterpillar
It is said that drunken pirates tirelessly pursued this caterpillar, the x on its back marking the location of a secret treasure. When islanders spotted pirate ships on approach they would release these caterpillars onto their beaches and the caterpillars would swim out to sea, taking the pirates with them.
A Fools Treasure Caterpillar is characterized by a soft coat of vibrant aqua blue bristles with two crossing lines of red over its back. While it spends most of its life on land in sandy beach scrub and thicket it also has the ability to swim on and just below the surface of water for long periods of time.
Campfire Caterpillar 
Campfire Caterpillar
Campfire Caterpillar is characterized by an ultra soft coat of creamy white bristles with short patches of chunky multi-colored light brown and white tuft scattered over its body. It is attracted to campfires, where it can be seen foraging for scraps of cooked food. It particularly favors marshmallows but has been known to approach campgoers for smores.
It is rumored that Campfire Caterpillars short, tufty patches are areas that have been scorched by drifting fire embers. While this sounds like a possible scenario it is highly probable that the patches actually function as a tool to regulate the caterpillars body temperature while in the presence of fire.
Banana Wanderer Caterpillar Banana Wanderer Caterpillar
Banana Wanderer Caterpillar is characterized by a soft coat of yellow bristles dotted by intermittent patches of brown, often organized in a diagonal line across its back. It was bred to search out and eat Banana Spiders before they reach our markets. The name Banana Spider is a common nickname for the venomous Brazilian Wandering Spider. The Wandering Spider hangs out in termite mounds, banana trees, and bromeliads. Occasionally they get packed up with farmed bananas and ride all the way to the produce section in the market. Banana Wanderer Caterpillar's yellow and brown coat help it camoflauge in with bananas so that it can sneak up on and catch Banana Spiders.
This Banana Wanderer Caterpillar has a very slight diagonal row of brown patches down the center of its back.
Lady Marmalade Caterpillar Lady Marmalade Caterpillar
Orange Marmalade Caterpillar, also known as "Lady Marmalade," is attracted to the aroma of simmering oranges. It can pick up the scent from as far as a mile away. This caterpillar is elusive in nature, appearing only during the preparation of orange marmalade.
It is characterized by a thick covering of soft orange bristles with two distinct light blue horizontal stripes on its body, one near its head and the other at its rear.
Peacharine Moth Caterpillar 
Peacharine Moth Caterpillar
Peacharine Moth Caterpillar is a soft white caterpillar characterized by a showy pattern of long-haired yellow rings along its body. It lives in the Peacharine tree, a tree created by cross-pollination between peach and nectarine trees. Peacharine Moth Caterpillars hatch in small numbers and because of this are generally not harmful to the tree. They nibble away on the leaves of the Peacharine tree, steering clear of the fruit. At maturation they spin a spherical cocoon from which they will emerge as a fuzzy pinkish-orange moth.
Candy Apple Caterpillar Candy Apple Caterpillar
Candy Apple Caterpillar is characterized by a soft coat of red or green bristles with stripes of longer caramel colored bristles alternating across its back. It is named after its favorite treat- candy apples. It craves the sweet treat and will hang out around candy shops for hours in hopes of sneaking a bite or two. Candy Apple Caterpillar doesn't just eat candy apples though, it will accept sugary hard candies as nourishment.
Candy Apple Caterpillar's caramel stripes can be scrunched with your fingers to give it a cute scruffy look.
Leopardoptera Caterpillar Leopardoptera Caterpillar
Leopardoptera Caterpillar is a product of genetic engineering. Its magnificent soft spotted leopard-like fur was specifically designed to appease fur lovers around the world, in turn aiding to ease the decline of leopard populations. However, due to its amicable demeanor it has recently become a focus for the topic of domestication. Its subtle leopard-like behaviors, beauty, and ease in feeding makes it a lovely pet and interesting companion.
Cotton Candy Caterpillar 
Cotton Candy Caterpillar
Cotton Candy Caterpillar loves to eat cotton candy. This caterpillar is most often found at carnival sites and amusement parks but has also been spotted at circuses. If you've been dying to adopt a Cotton Candy Caterpillar but you don't have a cotton candy machine at home don't worry- these little cuties will eat granulated sugar and they will suck on rock candy for hours.
Show Bunny Caterpillar 
Show Bunny Caterpillar
Often mistaken for a bunny as it wanders around the pampered bunnies on show at county fairs and contests, Show Bunny Caterpillar displays long luscious white and light brown-beige striped fur. It keeps its silky soft coat of fur beautiful by snacking on the special foods that are fed to the bunnies on show.
Tangelo Caterpillar Tangelo Caterpillar
Tangelo Caterpillar has orange and yellow stripes that alternate across its back. It spends most of its time in tangelo trees where it munches on the loose outer skin of ripe tangelos. If you ever come across a tangelo tree full of skinless fruit you can be sure the tangelo caterpillar has been there. Buy some tangelos at your local market and let tangelo caterpillar have them for a few minutes; you won't have to peel them!
A Tangelo is a hybrid fruit created by crossing a tangerine with a grapefruit.
A Fool's Treasure CaterpillarAlgae Mimic CaterpillarApple Wax CaterpillarAurora Moth CaterpillarAutumn Traveler CaterpillarBanana Wanderer CaterpillarBark Beetle CaterpillarBlack Candy CaterpillarBlack Rock Desert CaterpillarBlue Frazzle CaterpillarBlue Poppy Moth CaterpillarCampfire CaterpillarCandy Apple CaterpillarChocolate Dream CaterpillarCinema Sweeper CaterpillarCocoa Stripe CaterpillarCotton Candy CaterpillarCotton Stripe CaterpillarCrumb Divvy CaterpillarDandelion Field Moth CaterpillarDwarf Glacier Moth CaterpillarDye Chaser CaterpillarEgg Bandit CaterpillarEspressolott CaterpillarFallen Star CaterpillarFalse Transparent Burnet Moth CaterpillarField Spark CaterpillarFireswamp CaterpillarFox Hound CaterpillarFrisky Flyer CaterpillarGlacier Moth CaterpillarGrizzly CaterpillarGlass Pusher CaterpillarHarvest CaterpillarJohannistachel CaterpillarLady Marmalade Caterpillar Leopardoptera CaterpillarLine Crawler CaterpillarMange le Rayon CaterpillarMasked Clover CaterpillarMedian Junk CaterpillarMint Leaf CaterpillarModern Cave CaterpillarNon-Native Violet CaterpillarPacific Northwest Skybark CaterpillarPeacharine Moth CaterpillarPink Gingerbread CaterpillarPink Bubblegum CaterpillarPluotomus CaterpillarPop Rocks CaterpillarRaptor's Peril CaterpillarRed Ruby CaterpillarRock Fizz CaterpillarSapsucker CaterpillarScruffy Asphalt CaterpillarSecret Companion CaterpillarShow Bunny CaterpillarSnack Embezzler CaterpillarSnow Angel CaterpillarTangelo CaterpillarTiny Wasp Eater CaterpillarToadstool's Keeper CaterpillarWestern Straggle CaterpillarWhite-tufted Bloodlust CaterpillarYellow Salt Caterpillar
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