Was it eating it or just resting? Sometimes they go off the host plant to rest and molt. Many predators are searching host plants for caterpillars. I saw a book listed for "Butterflies of Trinidad and Tobago", but there are only out of print copies and they are expensive. Do you have a library? Maybe you could check out some field guides there about butterflies. In North American, the caterpillars eat: "Habitat tropical to Transition Zone woodland and Citrus groves. Ranges south to Colombia, Bimini, and Cuba. Hostplants tree and herb Rutaceae: Citrus sinensis, limon, aurantium, grandis (?), Zanthoxylum fagara, americanum, clava-herculis, hirsutum, Ptelea trifoliata, Ruta graveolens, Casimiroa edulis, Dictamnus albus, Amyris elemifera, Choisya; Piperaceae: four spp. of Piper in Cuba. R. Sim observed eggs laid on (and larvae eating) Staphyleaceae: Staphylea trifolia. Records of Nyssa sylvatica (Nyssaceae), Persea borbonia (Lauraceae), and Populus (Salicaceae) seem erroneous. Both P. cresphontes and P. zelicaon(6) fed on Citrus in the San Joaquin Valley, Calif., though cresphontes was a stray there and is now eradicated." This is from "The Butterflies of North America, A Natural History and Field Guide" by Dr. James A. Scott. I also searched on the host plant database. You can put in the plant or the butterfly/moth, but you have to use the latin name. Here is a link that might be useful: Host Plant Database for Papilio cresphontes Giant Swallowtail

Ken, I'm right here :0) Ofcourse it's a 'Sherwood Compact' but if I would tell this in the beginning this topic was done by my answer and that would be a shame ;0) It's a good thing to check our members knowledge once and a while. 'Jakobsen' is much differend: It's needle colour is more darker green because it's a cross with Pinus nigra. Also it's growing habit is more sprerading and it will lose it's inner needles on older wood which give's it a more or less baldy look...

You win cabrita! The red lettuce is Red Oak Leaf, but eh, close enough! :-) Pak Choi vs. Bok Choi, late season (ready to bolt) spinach and overgrown chard! I am impressed! Deanna

I love those wonderful little spiny spiders! That one's the spiny orb weaver. We called the next one Banana spider back in south carolina. Those fur bracelets give me the eebie jeebies! She's the golden silk spider. Don't know about the next one, eating the caterpillar for lunch! But the last one is the daring jumping spider.