This is my first time using this site - very impressive.
I need help with two caterpillars (?) I found. They both seem to be the same kind. Sorry about quality of second photo.
They were both found resting on common nettles.
hope you can help!
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Help Identifying Caterpillar
Help Identifying Caterpillar
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Re: Help Identifying Caterpillar
first one may be a sawfly larvae or somesort of fly larvae, don't think its any moth or butterfly caterpillar. May be wrong though
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Re: Help Identifying Caterpillar
Thanks for quick reply
Presumed it was moth / butterfly caterpillar - just reminds me of shape of hairstreak larvae?
Will try searching for pics of sawfly larvae...
Thanks
Presumed it was moth / butterfly caterpillar - just reminds me of shape of hairstreak larvae?
Will try searching for pics of sawfly larvae...
Thanks
Re: Help Identifying Caterpillar
It's the larva of a hoverfly busy searching for aphids...
Felix.
Felix.
Re: Help Identifying Caterpillar
Great that's cleared up - I really wouldn't have guessed it!
Thanks Felix
Thanks Felix
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Re: Help Identifying Caterpillar
Got home from work today, and found this caterpillar walking up my arm. Any chance of an ID, so I can pop it back on the appropriate food plant tomorrow. At a guess it may of come off a willow
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Re: Help Identifying Caterpillar
Hi Gary,
That is Blair's Shoulder Knot - Lithophane leautiri, and the foodplant is Lawson's cypress and related trees. (I love books!
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Martin.
That is Blair's Shoulder Knot - Lithophane leautiri, and the foodplant is Lawson's cypress and related trees. (I love books!
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Re: Help Identifying Caterpillar
Cheers Martin, I use a tractor-mower at this place, and I have to duck under a willow and a conifer, so I guessed it had to have come from one of the two, but I would have put my money on the willow.
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