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(46,684 posts) Sat Jul 14, 2018, 04:02 PM Jul 2018

Mystery solved. I know the strange moth that I saw in my sideyard.

"This caterpillar is a member of the “inchworm” family of moths, also known as “spanworms”."

caterpillar:

Moth:

Beautiful moth, but that batch laid eggs on my snowbush plant and it is decimating it. I might let them go another round and then I will have to take action.

http://blogs.ifas.ufl.edu/pinellasco/2009/05/15/snowbush-under-attack-by-spanworm/