Caterpillar ID please

[Chocky]

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

[Pete Eeles]

Looks like a sawfly larva to me. See:

http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/sawfly_larvae

for some examples.

Cheers,

- Pete

[Chocky]

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

[Dave McCormick]

Here is something from wikipedia that might help you know if its a sawfly larvae or caterpillar: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sawfly

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.

I am leaning towards sawfly larvae myself but I can't see legs, so I don't know.

[Chocky]

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

[ChrisC]

Depressaria daucella looks a likely candidate

Chris

[Pete Eeles]

Looks good to me. Thanks Chris.

Cheers,

- Pete

[Dave McCormick]

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

[Chocky]

So it's a Moth caterpillar?
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=2062
Thank you for finding it