Comments on: Variegated Fritillary Caterpillar

By: katlyn

katlyn — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:04:19 +0000

thanx this helped so much!!!!!!!:)

By: Cinnamon

Cinnamon — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:23:53 +0000

Thank you so much! I saw one of these at work today and had to take its picture. It was simply beautiful.

By: Jess Granger

Jess Granger — Wed, 13 May 2009 15:55:59 +0000

Thank you! This was driving me nuts! I found one of these little guys on my maypop vine. I suspected it was a Variegated Fritillary, because it looked so similar to the Gulf Fritillary caterpillars that usually eat the vine. But I couldn’t find a picture anywhere. I’m attempting to raise him in a nice little container on my porch now. I was doing it just to confirm my suspicions that it was a Variegated Frit, but now I’ll probably put the little guy out on the vine again. Then again, if he’s happy in the box, I’d love a picture once he grows up.

Thanks again!

Jess Granger

By: marcie o'connor

marcie o'connor — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 22:12:04 +0000

I’ve been enjoying reading your posts and wondered if you’d be interested in a site I just started. Its purpose is to learn about the life cycles of insects, and document them with photos. You talk a lot about the life cycles of the insects you find, so I thought you might like to see the site, and maybe contribute to it. Here’s the link: http://www.buglifecycles.com
It’s pretty new, so we’re trying to get the word out that we exist. We’d love to have more readers and more contributors! Let me know if you’re interested!

By: Shala

Shala — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 01:36:30 +0000

thank you SO much for these photos and identification! i have been searching and searching and frying my eyeballs trying to identify this caterpillar! we have one currently in chrysalis and it is gorgeous! no way would i kill these beauties. just plant more pansies so the caterpillars can have some and so can you!

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 01:08:48 +0000

Hi, this weekend in PA near Philadelphia my son found a caterpillar that looked similar to this one but with black areas on the body also. I am trying to find a picture of it for him so that we can identify it. Do you have any ideas on other similar caterpillars? Could you replay by e mail? I probably won’t find this site again. I have about ten windows open right now.

Thanks, Ann

By: Tim Eisele

Tim Eisele — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:49:34 +0000

A lot of people seem to be just as happy with large, attractive butterflies as with flowers, and so I’m not aware of much in the way of attempts to eradicate these. Some people might even go as far as specifically planting pansies specifically to cultivate fritillary caterpillars. In our case, they never got numerous enough to kill the flowers, so we just let them go. They are pretty easy to spot, so I expect that picking them off and disposing of them would be pretty easy in a small flower patch. For that matter, any standard insecticide or insecticidal soap would probably clear them off, if desired.

By: Joan

Joan — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:04:50 +0000

Thanks, this helped find out what was eating our pansies..
Any recommended control?
Joan

By: JFargo

JFargo — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:54:19 +0000

Those are some really awesome caterpillars! Macro or not, I think the detail came out rather well, and they look really cool.

Very nice.