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Caterpillar in Highland Scotland ident
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:46 pm
by Highlander
Hello everyone
I was wondering if someone could identify the caterpillar I found on one of my small trees today (Prunus sp)
- Caterpillar on Prunus tree
Thanks
Richard
Re: Caterpillar in Highland Scotland ident
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 7:51 pm
by Trev Sawyer
Looks like a Grey Dagger moth caterpillar to me Richard...
Trev
Re: Caterpillar in Highland Scotland ident
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:15 pm
by Highlander
Thanks, it does look like a Grey Dagger moth caterpillar from other pictures I have now looked at. A bit dissapointed that it is a moth! However it is supposed to be rarer in Scotland and we are at the top, in Caithness.
Richard
Re: Caterpillar in Highland Scotland ident
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2011 8:19 pm
by David M
Highlander wrote: we are at the top, in Caithness.
What butterflies do you see in that part of Scotland, Richard?
Re: Caterpillar in Highland Scotland ident
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2011 12:35 am
by Philzoid
When I was a kid growing up in County Durham I used to find these striking caterpillars quite a lot
... usually on apple. Unfortunately I never got to see the moth because every example I tried to rear on to pupal stage was parasitised (tachinids)
. Funny how things like that stick in the memory
.
Just out of interest the Grey dagger has a relative called the Dark Dagger which a an imago is indisdinguishable from the former. The caterpillars are noticeably different though.