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May 16 - Female deposited these eggs on the coral honeysuckle leaves. I've seen them depositing eggs April - August but the season could be longer in our warm climate.

May 22 - First eggs hatched this morning. They are so small I can't get the point-and-shoot camera to focus on them.

May 26 - Now four days old. Much more detail is visible including nine spots down the side, a raised yellow anterior rim at the head. Without the magic of macro photography, the rear horn looks like a tiny black hair on the caterpillar. These caterpillars are still smaller than a baking "cookie sprinkle" or icing sprinkle.

June 2

Notice the yellow at the base of the horn and the yellow anterior rim behind the head. These horns are not stingers as some folks have feared.

June 8

Here is a good view of the underside of the caterpillar only a few days before it buried itself.

First Snowberry Clearwing moth pupa.

Two moths emerged on the morning of July 2.

I was lucky to get this photo before the moth had flown around enough to lose the scales on its wings. Compare these wings to the wings in the photo at the top of this page.