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Identification, please!
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:18 pm
by alex mclennan
Can someone help to identify these, please
Thanks. Alex
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:36 pm
by Pete Eeles
This looks like a glow worm larva to me (see
http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/lamp.htm) and a Peacock butterfly larva.
Cheers,
- Pete
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 2:37 pm
by IAC
Alex ,cant help with first one, but I am sure the other is a Peacock....maybe.. just a guess.
Cheers IAC
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 6:54 pm
by alex mclennan
Thanks Pete and IAC. I was reasonably sure about the peacock but was thrown by the fact that there were so many of them on one nettle plant - probably thirty caterpillars. But that other creature baffled me completely until I checked your link, Pete.
Cheers. Alex
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 11:46 am
by Chris
Top one is definitely a glow-worm... I found one in the forest of Dean a couple of years ago and brought it home in a matchbox (illegally, unknowingly at the time!). I kept him in a big spaghetti jar and fed him on little snails from the garden until he pupated, whereby I released him into a site in East Yorks that has them. He brightened up my bedroom every night. I miss you, Glowy
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Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 10:17 am
by Padfield
Isn't it only the females that glow? I understand they stop after they have mated.
Glowy was a girl.
Guy
Posted: Sat Jun 16, 2007 1:37 pm
by Chris
Dagnammit! And I kitted her jar in blue and bought her action men! I hope the other glow-worms didn't tease her for wearing "comfortable shoes"... folk can be cruel up here!