An impressively colored and patterned lime green caterpillar, replete with a black-tipped, orange horn at its rear. It is the caterpillar of a white-lined sphinx moth -- a type of hummingbird moth. It was on a dirt road on Lasky Mesa in Upper Las Virgenes Canyon Open Space Preserve (Ahmanson Ranch). October 10, 2023.
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