The big eyes are fake, I think. They look like big compound eyes.
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It's a skipper caterpillar. I don't know what kind though.
We have Silver Spotted Skippers doing serious damage to the Edamame. They have purplish brown giant heads with neon orange fake eye spots and yellow green bodies. They silk leaves together into a nest. At first glance, they look like some sort of a ladybug because all you see are their heads. Same as yours, they have a sort of eerie, alien appearance to them.
My 8 yr old is raising 3 of them indoors as subset of our annual Monarch Butterfly Project -- we have two chrysalises and another caterpillar that is probably about 3rd or 4th instar. In addition to all the Monarchs (90 chrysalises as of this morning), we also have a hornworm pupa and a container full of fuzzy caterpillars that I think are some kind of white wooly bears (I have yet to ID them) that hatched from a cluster of eggs on the celery, plus -- as of yesterday morning -- two dozen or so Black Swallowtail eggs in addition to the 9 chrysalises and 1 5th instar caterpillar.
We have Silver Spotted Skippers doing serious damage to the Edamame. They have purplish brown giant heads with neon orange fake eye spots and yellow green bodies. They silk leaves together into a nest. At first glance, they look like some sort of a ladybug because all you see are their heads. Same as yours, they have a sort of eerie, alien appearance to them.
My 8 yr old is raising 3 of them indoors as subset of our annual Monarch Butterfly Project -- we have two chrysalises and another caterpillar that is probably about 3rd or 4th instar. In addition to all the Monarchs (90 chrysalises as of this morning), we also have a hornworm pupa and a container full of fuzzy caterpillars that I think are some kind of white wooly bears (I have yet to ID them) that hatched from a cluster of eggs on the celery, plus -- as of yesterday morning -- two dozen or so Black Swallowtail eggs in addition to the 9 chrysalises and 1 5th instar caterpillar.