Butterflies and Caterpillars

An exquisite hairstreak butterfly. It is about 1 cm long and actually stood still on the sunflower leaf long enough to be photographed. If you click on the picture, you can get a closer look.








I kept a pair of these, gave them a green tomato which one devoured while the other formed a chrysalis. Then I waited for them to emerge.
Only one did. I have the pictures but they made a mess while eating, the picture is yucky.





This is called a tomato hornworm caterpillar.
I think the white spikes are parasites, they sure look like it and I've only seen this caterpillar with them. Maybe they are the horns. But they aren't on the other pictures I've seen of hornworms http://insects.tamu.edu/fieldguide/cimg308.html. I don't believe this guy eats anything but leaves. They are too big and juicy for me to capture and watch develop into a moth. See the link above for the outcome of that. If it were to morph into a creature of beauty I probably would have tried.