candidate for Miss November, Bronze Beauty...

This moth is quite large, with two large blue spots and a pattern of several (three) prominent parallel zigzag lines. I spotted her in our semi enclosed car port last evening, she was sitting still on the brick wall there. I took her inside the house for one evening/overnight and she laid some eggs, as seen on the photo (click to enlarge). The eggs are greenish and are roundish/ flat (cylindrical). Her scientific name is Dasypodia, common name is "Southern old lady" moth or simply "brown house moth", what a boring name (but at the same time quite a descriptive name...) The caterpillars feed on several (at least) acacia species. Will observe the eggs, and she can go outside, perhaps she will produce even more eggs...

The case of Private Pancake = caterpillar feeding on grass...

Recently I have been showing translucent green caterpillars feeding on eucalyptus leaves; but I have also spotted a different green larva feeding simply on grass leaves. I have observed that not only it feeds on grass but it also hides in the blades of grass, by which I mean it rolls itself into a single blade of grass (rolled lengthwise around his body). One can see some white silk thread that he used as a "glue" for rolling/wrapping the blade of grass around his body (click on photo to see details). I decided to call him Private Pancake because he reminds me of soldiers dressed in green uniforms (the grass) and a simple elongated shape of the rolled pancake...
How about edible uniforms for soldiers, inspired by this guy?...