Common Mormon caterpillar

Yes, indeed. I don't have much luck in photographing butterflies and birds too. But when you do manage to get some decent shots of them, you'd feel a sense of achievement. When I got into taking pictures of nature around me, I found myself becoming more observant and appreciative of life's simplest pleasure.

That is a living work of art. Amazing looking creature - enjoy watching it - maybe some progress pictures later ??

they like to eat Kaffir lime leaves.

This looks more like the caterpillar of Common Mormon (Papilio polytes romulus) - see here: http://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2011/10/life-history-of-common-mormon.html I have thought it was a lime butterfly caterpillar despite noticing the dissimilarities until I saw that post at butterflycircle blog recently. This is the entry on lime butterfly by the same blog: http://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2011/11/life-history-of-lime-butterfly-v20.html Incidentally, there's one such common mormon caterpillar on my lime tree now, newly moulted into 5th instar today.