This caterpillar came home with me in my hair . It must have dropped out of a tree or bush so I have no way of knowing what it feeds on. I took a photo of it and released it into the garden.
It is about an inch long and this shot is 6.3 mm macro
Caterpillar ID please
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Re: Caterpillar ID please
Looks like a sawfly larva to me. See:
http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/sawfly_larvae
for some examples.
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http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/sawfly_larvae
for some examples.
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Re: Caterpillar ID please
I think not. The pattern is completely different . Noe yellow sides and different rear end.
It has been recorded but no ID to date
Thank you however
It has been recorded but no ID to date
Thank you however
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Re: Caterpillar ID please
Here is something from wikipedia that might help you know if its a sawfly larvae or caterpillar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawfly
I am leaning towards sawfly larvae myself but I can't see legs, so I don't know.The larvae look like caterpillars (the larvae of moths and butterflies), with two notable exceptions; (1) they have six or more pairs of prolegs on the abdomen (caterpillars have five or fewer), and (2) they have two stemmata instead of a caterpillar's six. Typical sawfly larvae are herbivorous, the group feeding on a wide range of plants. Individual species, however, are often quite specific in their choice of plants used for food. The larvae of various species exhibit leaf-mining, leaf "rolling", or gall formation. Three families are strictly xylophagous, and called "wood wasps", and one family is parasitic. The larvae that do not feed externally on plants are grub-like, without prolegs.
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Re: Caterpillar ID please
The pattern is very different unless these creatures vary a great deal
Here are two more views . t was so tiny I didn't think about the legs. But Your probably right. There does seam to be a great many variations
Here are two more views . t was so tiny I didn't think about the legs. But Your probably right. There does seam to be a great many variations
Re: Caterpillar ID please
Depressaria daucella looks a likely candidate
Chris
Chris
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Re: Caterpillar ID please
Looks good to me. Thanks Chris.
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Re: Caterpillar ID please
Looks right to me as well: http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=2062 I thought at firsty it was a moth caterpillar, but the markings made me think it ould be a sawfly larvae. Well at least you know what foodplant it easts, water-dropwart
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