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Jun 3, 2015 12:13 PM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
Butterflies Enjoys or suffers hot summers Hummingbirder Birds Bee Lover Bookworm
Region: Florida Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Bromeliad Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Identifier Salvias
That certainly looks like a Buckeye! They don't get too big but I would think you'd have a few more days before he makes his chrysalis. But caterpillars have a mind of their own and since they don't exactly have large brains - who knows? It seems to me that the ones I've raised at the museum got to at least an inch long, though. I'm not very good at guessing measurements but it seems like they were at least an inch. Still think that it's weird that it's eating Butterfly Bush.

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