Hi Sami, it's so good to see you!

One of the catalpa caterpillars features is a rear horn which I don't see on any of these, the catalpa larva has two forms one is lighter with pinkish underside , the other darker like your pics but both forms have the rear horn.

What about a western tent caterpillar??

Whatever it is , it's nasty, huh? You got some awesome pictures of it!!!

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Yep, looks very much like tent caterpillars. However, there is no hair on the caterpillars that I took pictures of. And, in reading about tent caterpillars, they hair is a significant part of their defense. They are EVERYWHERE we step or look at work, like they are migrating somewhere. I could get some & keep them in a jar, to see what they turn into, but I wouldn't know what to do about feeding them....

Yeah, they're very icky, lol.

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Plant Doc...that does look a lot like them only they weren't prickly at all. The pics I posted are nearly exactly what they looked like. The color was hard to describe, kinda greenish blue/grey...

But, the fall army worm sounds like what I saw. I'm going to go out & take another look at them this weekend to see if they are still there and if they've gotten any bigger.

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