Calling all bug experts...

[lulugirl]

Any thoughts on what this creature might be?
I found it out back, it's about 3 inches long w/ pinchy things on it's underside.
Oh..... and it squirms.

 

[crazee4mickey]

Yuck! No ideas but its gross!

 

[beck0321]

Looks like a caterpillar of some sort. But 3 inches long?! That is very long.

 

[edcrbnsoul]

Does it taste like chicken ?

 

[milkabum]

I told you they're coming for you.

 

[lulugirl]

I told you they're coming for you.

He he he...if it starts multiplying I'm going to burn the house down.
A few weeks ago it was a tarantula, now this...
Why do creepy little beasts seem to feel welcome in my home?

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Well I am going to say it is some kind of Butterfly Chrysalis.

 

[Narnian_Princess]

Ewwww, that's just nasty!

 

[Spinning]

http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/caterpillar.html
Kind of looks like the tomato tobacco horn worm

 

[highland3]

Do you have spruce trees near your home?

 

[magicmato]

http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/caterpillar.html
Kind of looks like the tomato tobacco horn worm

I agree... have seen those on my grandparents farm and all I can say is .... eeeeeew!

 

[lulugirl]

http://nitro.biosci.arizona.edu/zeeb/butterflies/caterpillar.html
Kind of looks like the tomato tobacco horn worm

That is precisely what it looks like!
Very interesting, thanks!

 

[lulugirl]

Do you have spruce trees near your home?

Nope, no spruce trees here.

 

[beck0321]

Just put the poor lil' fella back outside. I think he is cute!

 

[lulugirl]

Just put the poor lil' fella back outside. I think he is cute!

I put him back outside under a tree.
I'm going to keep checking on him!

 

[highland3]

Oh well, so much for my theory. He looks a bit like a spruce budworm... on steroids.

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

I was going to say he looks like a tomato caterpillar type. We used to get 10 cents a caterpillar when I was a kid. I guess there were a lot of them on the vines way back then.

 

[magicmato]

They also make quite a disgusting noise when stepped on. We used to pick them off and step on them as they are destructive pests.

 

[TinkNH]

you can search this site, and send them the picture too for help:

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

Thats how I figured out that the giant spider I was sure wanted to carry off my child was an orb weaver. (They say it is harmless but I don't believe them!)

ETA: I looked at the 1st caterpillar page and it lokes like the 4 horned sphinx...about 10 pics down from top ???