From the saturniidae family. They have a wingspan of 110-160 mm. They can be found in Africa. Their wings are covered in microscopic scales which allow for the absorbotion of echolocation sounds from bats, their primary predator.
Some say that moths are just nighttime butterflies, but here is an actual nighttime butterfly - a cabbage white, Pieris rapae - that I caught with the flashlight, hanging out on my joe-pye-weed. What a cute little jerk-eating-my-brassicas :-).
Solanum aethiopicum (aka Pumpkin-on-a-stick). This is an African eggplant whose fruit visually resembles pumpkins when ripe. They are edible but you see them more here in the U.S. as dried components in flower arrangements. I collected the seeds from a Fall flower arrangement we bought last year. I hope we get some fully developed fruit because I've found some recipes online & I really want to see what they taste like:
Just one of the senoritas visiting our backyard on their way back to Central America:
ID. photos of a green inchworm on the edge of a plastic woven outdoor mat. End ID.
@night-dark-woods submitted:
inchworm on my porch which of my plants will he eat!!! (in boston, mass area. in trying to unsuccessfully ID him i found out his family are called geometer moths because they MEASURE THINGS because they are inchworms, which is the coolest thing ever. dont worry about an ID unless its easy bc it looks like there are. hundreds of thousands of species).
So you're right that inchworms can be geometer moth caterpillars, but there are also caterpillars of a group called plusiine looper moths in the family Noctuidae that move in the same inchworm fashion, and this little fella happens to be one of those! Possibly a cabbage looper moth, Trichoplusia ni.