Agriculture officials respond after invasive butterfly makes appearance in Key West
KEY WEST, Fla. – A Key West woman spotted a curious-looking caterpillar in her backyard and it caught the attention of state officials. Heather Lud...
KEY WEST, Fla. – A Key West woman spotted a curious-looking caterpillar in her backyard and it caught the attention of state officials. Heather Ludwick and her daughter noticed a caterpillar on their Meyer lemon tree. 'When we first saw it, it was this big and it was brown and we thought it was a native species,' Ludwick said. But then, it turned green, and since they didn't recognize it, they turned to the Internet to identify it. 'We used the citizen science website to take a picture to try to identify it and then the comments started coming in,' Ludwick said.