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California is home to thousands of caterpillar species. Some will become moths, others will become butterflies. Some will destroy plants and crops and others that are harmless. The caterpillars also range in color and size with different growth stages.
There are hundreds of different caterpillar species found in California! Since it would be impossible to list them all in one article, I chose the 21 most interesting and common ones to share with you. 🙂
Gaze in amazement at how these wonderful cretures turn into butterflies. These little critters are a wonder of nature. See how caterpillars grow through a series of moults with intermediate stages called instars. The last moult takes them into the inactive pupal or chrysalis stage.
Watch these Red Admiral caterpillars grow from a tiny worm-like caterpillar to a crysalis. Then emerge into a large butterfly with striking dark brown, red and black wing patterns. These Red Admiral larvae are very colorful and voracious feeders.
21 mar 2023 · Annie’s carries four native milkweeds – Showy milkweed (Asclepias speciosa and A. speciosa ‘Davis’), as well as the Narrow-Leafed milkweed (A. fascicularis) and the curious Nodding milkweed (A. glaucescens). Easy to grow and vigorous, milkweeds love the sun, good drainage and bloom all summer.
22 sie 2024 · The forest tent caterpillar is a type of caterpillar found in California. These types of caterpillars in California form large, dense colonies and can strip trees of their leaves. The caterpillars feed on the leaves of deciduous trees, including oak and maple.
Wild Saturniid Silk Moths such as Luna moths start thier life out as a egg. once they hatch they will roam around and get thier bearings to find food. Luna moths are gregarious for the first two to three instars, but separate and live independently after that.
