Jeepers Creepers
At the beginning of the month I saw this guy in the peas when I was pulling weeds: It's not all that easy to identify a caterpillar, and nothing that popped up on my go-to online identifier seemed quite right. In the meantime, I found another one nibbling away at our corn: As that will not stand, he was promptly fed to the chickens, and I haven't seen any more around. But I did finally have a chance to do a little more research, and I think this is a Yellow Wooly Bear , which, as it somewhat confusingly turns out, isn't always yellow. They come out toward fall and eat whatever they find in their paths, which makes me not at all sorry that I fed the two I found to the chickens. Well, maybe a teensy bit sorry, since it grows up to be a pretty cool looking White Tiger Moth if you let it. But most not sorry, since I like to eat corn and other things that I worked hard to grow.