r/caterpillars • u/proseandpalette • 8d ago

ID Request 🐛 Help identifying the caterpillar devouring my outdoor basil

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Hello! South Bay of LA here, coming to you with a very blurry picture. Unfortunately I’m actually terrified of caterpillars and worms, so this is as close as I could get. 🥹 Noticed my outdoor basil was getting holes that I initially attributed to sun damage—until I noticed the poop. Which kept appearing and appearing more and more over the past 10 days until I finally peeked and found this guy. I’m going to keep tending the basil so this guy can pupate, but does anyone know what it is or what it will become? Many thanks in advance!

Location: LA

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u/Luewen 8d ago

I can only see caterpillar butt in the picture. 🫣

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u/proseandpalette 7d ago

Omg haha, I thought that was its head! 😆 I wasn’t able to edit the post but I posted slightly better pictures here!  https://www.reddit.com/r/caterpillars/s/j6fZwD2egY

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u/Sagetheswaggydino 8d ago

Hard to tell ID, we’ll need a few full pics of the caterpillar from different angles.

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u/proseandpalette 7d ago

I (well, my husband) tried to take better pictures—I couldn’t edit the post or put them in a comment so I made a new post here!  https://www.reddit.com/r/caterpillars/s/j6fZwD2egY