Kit and I were wondering what had devoured our bell pepper plant during the night – it’s a few feet high and now sadly lacking in leaves and our peppers were chomped. Odd, since it’s on our deck right by our house. Anyhoo, I looked out the window and saw this and screamed, it’s HUGE!

Kit put his keys next to it for scale and the kids were discussing what in the world this thing must turn into and how big of a thing?? Mo says it’s going to be a dragon. 🙂

Seriously giving me the shivers, I can’t look at it.

Update: Kit found two more, they are four inches long and called a Tomato Horn Worm (though ours devoured our pepper plant.) They are creepy! Bleck. I can handle looking them up online and reading about them to the fascinated kids but I made Kit deal with sticking them in the caterpillar cage.

Update II: Kit put them in our caterpillar cage and they ATE THEIR WAY OUT, right through the netting. Stinkers.