Aug 112014
Keep calm and look like dung. That appears to be the strategy of the Viceroy Caterpillar (Limenitis archippus), here photographed on a pin cherry leaf along Piney Woods Church Road. When alarmed by the presence of my camera lens, he (or she) even contorted his/her body in a fascinating bit of caterpillar yoga, presumably so to look even more like bird droppings. Considering that I found four caterpillars thriving on four different leaves of the same sapling, it appears that the strategy may be paying off.
