Golden banded-skipper

Its caterpillar sews leaves together with silk to make a little tent, and only comes out at night to eat.

The caterpillar is pine green with small yellow spots, and its black head has two orange spots like a face.

The mother lays her eggs under a leaf in a neat row of two to nine. The yellow eggs turn tan just before they hatch.

It spends the winter as a pupa, waiting for spring.

There are two groups of them: a rare one in the eastern United States and a more common one in the southwest and Mexico.