I found a very interesting caterpillar in the yard, definitely looks like something to avoid touching. I tried identifying it with an app, but there were no caterpillar pictures to compare to (turns out the second hit was a Question Mark butterfly, so my trust is restored). So I turned to image searches for “spikey caterpillar Texas” which lead me to butterfliesandmoths.org. Yup, bookmarked it, after finding a very similar looking caterpillar and cross referencing another image search on “question mark caterpillar”. I frequently do a kind of reverse search once I think I’ve found my answer. It is very interesting what I sometimes find. Mostly it confirms, but sometimes it debunks. This confirmed and gave more caterpillar pictures that matched my little guy.