I have one white peacock caterpillar left that appears to have just molted. The white peacock is 1.4″ in length and can be found in peninsular Florida, as well as southern Texas. The butterfly will lay green eggs, which are laid singularly. The caterpillars oftentimes hide near the ground during the daytime.
The caterpillars eat frogfruit, and the volunteers at the Butterfly Estates said wild petunia, which is what they have been munching on inside the butterfly house. So, I have yet another plant to put in the garden for the white peacocks, as I already have two fogfruits established already.
The other five that we brought home from Butterfly Estates on July 28 have already created their chrysalis. They are tiny in size, and green.
