No, caterpillars do not eat wood!They eat the host plant that their eggs are laid on. Each type of butterfly has a different host plant. Monarchs lay their eggs on the Milkweed plant. The Red Admiral butterfly lays her eggs on Pellitory Weed, & False Nettle Weed. Swallowtails lay their eggs on Sweet Fennel, Alfalfa, & Clovers.
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The caterpillar for the Dasychira Pudibunda moth resembles a sponge. This caterpillar is yellow and from a distance looks like a very small sponge.
It sounds like you're describing a Bagworm moth caterpillar. Bagworms create protective cases made of silk and camouflaged with materials like twigs, leaves, and bark. The caterpillar moves around in its case, peeking out from both ends, and can emerge to feed and pupate.
A tent caterpillar is an example of a caterpillar that will be found in trees. The insect in question (Malacosoma spp) spends the larval stage developing and feeding inside unsightly webs which they build on tree branches.
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a saddleback caterpillar
a caterpillar will only eat the leaf it was born on so it depends on what kind of caterpillar it is.
bark of a tree look like a Flute
A caterpillar that, when in metamorphosis, cocoon looks like a walnut shell.
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Yes some do but most of the time they need to be the same caterpillar kind
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