Found MANY of them on a small American Elm! Took forever to find out what they were! I only ever saw the caterpillars, no butterflies or chysalises.

The tree is right up against the sidewalk, though be warned the sidewalk has only one ramp, and a section of dirt and mud unless they fix it.

It's development can be followed:
Larva https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/79511352
Pupa
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/81590622
Adult
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/82796482

CRG Reference Suncana 1053

See her swinging her bolas: https://youtu.be/DKMrKwTNV5k

Some more wonderful photos of this lady by photographers much better then moi. She is quite a celebrity!

https://www.facebook.com/groups/101951926508391/permalink/4394361263934081/

https://www.facebook.com/groups/101951926508391/permalink/4397220953648112/

notroadkill

First draft of description:
Playing dead, it turned back into the bush after a few minutes.
Interesting sculptural effect. Is this a stop motion of muscle movement?

Additional information added in response to questions in comments below.
Snake: completely unmoving as if "frozen" for a few minutes. Surface contours present and unchanged, until just before it turn around back into the bush.

What happened:
We were driving, when I saw "something on the road ahead". We drove up slowly to get a better view.

We stopped the car less than 5m from, what was by then clearly, a snake. It had not moved from the time that we spotted it some distance before.

I was intrigued by surface contours. Stupidly and reflexively, I got out of the car from the passenger side. I came around the back of the car to get clearer photos. It did not move for perhaps a minute or so.

When one of our friends in the car behind us also got out, I came to my senses. Almost as soon as I said not to get any closer, that it might be playing dead, the snake turned around returning to the bush.

nymph fiddling

I moved this little nymph from its large green home (an Iboza leaf), across the drive to a safer spot. Onto a blooming bright orange Tecomaria flower. I had before observed a pink nymph on such a flower and wanted to see if this fellow would change colour. Not a chance! By the next day he'd climbed off the flower and found another large green home about 20cm away (as the nymph climbs down then up), an about-to-bud blue Plectranthus. He might have been disturbed by a giant, relatively, Leaf-footed Bug which are commandeering the emerging Tecomaria flowers, but I won't fiddle with his obvious preference again.

Whether he can change colour is thus moot.

Of interest in these latest shots, taken sequentially a couple of seconds apart, is his defense response. In the first pic, his pale face is looking at me (doubtless thinking, "Hell the bugger's going to move me again!"). I then gently tickled the underside of his leaf and his head instantly snapped around, antennae flailing, to show me the black "face" behind his head.