Caterpillar Id needed

[brancsikia339]

Pics not working right now. #1 is small and green with tiny black spines on the head and tiny white spines all over the body. The largest is almost an inch, but that is expected since it is early in the year. The #2 is large and green, no spikes with white dorsal line and a single yellow line on each side. Also it has tiny white dots all over the body. I'm pretty sure #1 is either a luna or cecropia. Any ideas??? Thanks

 

[agent A]

#2 sounds like polyphemus

does #2 look like this:

 

[brancsikia339]

No he isn't bumpy. I found a cocoon of one and it is a silk cocoon within a net of silk to hold it in place

 

[CoolMantid]

Number 2 sounds like a sphinx moth cat. But then again it would not have woven a silk blankettry searching yuor description on bug guide.net

 

[brancsikia339]

thanx. #2 is a rolland's swallow caterpillar. #1 is still unknown

 

[CoolMantid]

Thats great!

 

[brancsikia339]

I'm thinking #1 is either a cecropia or Luna caterpillar. It had light green spines on the body and large black spines on the head and tail. They're still about half an inch long. Due to the look it seems to be one of them. If this helps with identification, they were found on 3 different types of "oak" tree (not sure if one or two of them is oak)

 

[CoolMantid]

You could always wait for them to eclose as adults. Which should be a month after they pupatate