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Caterpillar ID please
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:19 pm
by NickB
Found in old chalk pit with Common Blue and Brown Argus flying. About 5mm long. My first thought is early larval Common Blue...but no doubt I'm wrong.
Any help please?
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Re: Caterpillar ID please
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:53 pm
by Martin
Pretty sure that's not a butterfly...none of them in my book have all that "stuff" on thier backs.
Martin.
Re: Caterpillar ID please
Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2008 9:56 pm
by NickB
Interesting little critter tho'! Any ideas anyone? Calcareous grassland...
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Re: Caterpillar ID please
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 5:53 am
by hjalava
Looks like a Chrysomelidae (leaf beetle) larva to me.
Re: Caterpillar ID please
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 9:24 am
by NickB
hjalava wrote:Looks like a Chrysomelidae (leaf beetle) larva to me.
Thanks - Did on reflection look more like a beetle/ladybird larva...
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Re: Caterpillar ID please
Posted: Mon Jun 16, 2008 12:14 pm
by Dave McCormick
Hmm, yeah. Caterpillars usually have short stubby legs, not longer ones like this has. Cool looking critter anyway