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For the last two evenings, while checking that slugs are not eating my young plants, I have seen a caterpillar feeding on my Primrose. It is quite small and grayish. I presumed that it was a moth, but is there any chance of it being a butterfly? I have looked for it during the day to take a photo, but I can't find it. It was a new plant at the end of last summer, bought from a wildflower nursery in Somerset near West Hatch. Dare I ask, could it be a DOB?

Denise

Hi Denise,

DOB overwinter as pupae, not larvae, so this is almost certainly a moth of some sort. You could breed it through and let us know

Cheers,

- Pete

Yes Pete, I thought so. A case of wishful hoping and putting my fingers in gear before my head. Thanks anyway. Feel a bit stupid now
Denise

Hi. Silver Ground Carpet is one of the commoner moths using primrose sp. as a food plant. Larva isn't what I would call grey though. This is the only image I could find

http://www.habitas.org.uk/moths/larva.asp?item=5802

Good Luck !

thorntonmothman wrote:Hi. Silver Ground Carpet is one of the commoner moths using primrose sp. as a food plant. Larva isn't what I would call grey though. This is the only image I could find

http://www.habitas.org.uk/moths/larva.asp?item=5802

Good Luck !

Thanks, but that's not it. Grey/light brown with a line running down the side and two tiny black dots at the bum end!