Butterflypixie, I'm glad I didn't kill it then. It looked kind of ugly to me, but then again, I used to think caterpillars were ugly. lol I never knew that about some moths digging into the ground...very interesting. MissSherry, Darn, now I wish I would have kept it, but being that I was sure what it was, I was afraid that if it was anything good that I might be depriving it of food if I kept it and it needed to it. I did see it move. That's why I wasn't sure if it was a pupa or what it was. I know that my Monarch pupas didn't move while I had them here except of course when the caterpillars was wiggling around in there getting situated right after it went into pupation. Nope, it didn't have an holes in it as far as I could see. It was definitely alive. Cathy

That is a species of chiton (Class Polyplacophora), a relatively primitive type of mollusc.

Thanks for all the comments and helpful hints. I put the cheap Walmart dry dog food out in the evening and kill the diners at about 9PM and maybe again at 10PM. By morning it is typically gone, even though it was often sprayed with the ammonia. As it will stay light later I will have to adjust the schedule. Recently my nightly kill dropped to 20 one night, so I skipped about a week. I will put out the dog food tonight. Ok this will sound gross, but they also like chewed up chocolate or chocolate cookies. The very weird thing is I had a liquidy chocolate that I deposited on the ground. I did this about 4:00PM, then went to a play. Came back and checked about 9PM. I thought that the way the chocolate dropped to the ground and worked it's way into the dirt that they would be working on the chocolate awhile. Surprise, the Chocolate was ALL GONE, not a trace in all 8 spots. Wish I saw what happened. I may try that again tonight.

Thanks MizGG! I've just been googling at and that's definitely it! The moth is beautiful but the caterpillar was very... Unique... Haha