Do you know catapillers?

[freebornsociety]

I'd like to know if this one is a pest, or not.

This is where I found his cousin.

If it is something that needs to not lose habitat, that might be a good thing to know before I rip out the rest of the weeds they are growing in.

I found these mushroom, too.
They were tiny.

They are under a pine tree.

This crop duster comes by often.
I don't know if he is the spy in the sky, or if he just has that much work to do.
Probably a little of both.
He changed directions the first couple days I spotted him, and he has since flown over above visibility limits and then did this.
I'm guessing that in texass air rights go as high as a rifle shoots, or something, he sure avoided this patch of ground.

I got me a new charge, see if you can spot him.

Look where the grass shadow is covering his eyes.

If you still haven't spotted him, use peakd's zoom feature to look even closer, eh?

I'm betting this is his mom.

That is enough for one day, I guess.
Here is today's abundant harvest on the fbs farm and garden tour.

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[builderofcastles]

I asked of a cat knowing person:

Black with yellow stripes are cutworms. Can be a pest. This year I've had some but they only stuck to the clover. They usually don't eat too much but can easily eliminate seedlings, or cut grown plants at the base if the stem is tasty enough.
the adults are dark brown moths
the yellow-striped armyworm
they liked my zinnias last year.
you usually don't see the moths, probably because they're nocturnal.
the pupae are red
for the green ones, they're also a moth caterpillar of some sort but the pics are blurry so I don't really know what kind
They might not even be caterpillars judging by the amount of false legs. They could be sawfly larvae or syrphid larvae. Their behavior is a good clue. If there are little legs all along the body without any gaps it's not a lepidopteran.
In which case, if it moves fast and doesn't eat leaves it's a syrphid larva

[freebornsociety]

Thank you, I'm glad they weren't monarchs, or something.
They are living on what I would characterize as weeds and was pulling them by the roots.