The Tomato Hornwarm's pupal stage is long and variable. We tried to keep some until they were moths, they made their cocoons under the dirt we put in the cage. Two years later they still hadn't come out so we thought they were dead. When we dumped out the cage in the woods we found them all (there were 3) in fully formed cocoons.
Do not help the caterpillar, the caterpillar will realize the cacoon is open so the caterpillar will go out of the cacoon and form another if it can so leave your caterpillar alone.
I'm not sure I'm asking you
yes a catipiller makes it a cacoon out of its saliva
It will eather die in its cacoon or stay a catterpiller
i believe its fall/winter and comes out in spring/summer.
Only a certain type of caterpillar called a horned tomato caterpillar.
Egg, Larvae/Caterpillar, Chrysalis/Cacoon, Butterfly/Moth.
usually one.... each caterpillar makes its own cocoon or chrysalis.
tomato horn worms.
The Caterpillar eats until it is fully ready to break out of the cocoon, This may take a few weeks to a year or so. Hope This Helps
Spikes on caterpillars are not a sign of cocooning.Rather, they occur only on some caterpillar species.
i caught a caterpiller yesterday for my daeughter and woke up today and its already mede his cacoon and he started sometime after 11 pm and my daughter noticed him in it this morning around 12noon