ID Butterflies and Caterpillars

Scarlet Pimpernel · #1 (**permalink**) 11-10-2007, 09:56 PM

Cheers Jacob

Deer Stalker · #2 (**permalink**) 11-10-2007, 10:47 PM

Hi Jacob.

1. Speckled Wood
3. One of the Blues - when & where was it taken?
5. Gatekeeper

wildlifesnapper · #3 (**permalink**) 11-10-2007, 11:27 PM

Hi

1. speckled wood
2. some type of sawfly larvae
3. small copper
4. Dark Dagger moth
5. gatekeeper

neil

Scarlet Pimpernel · #4 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 07:25 AM

The picture of the blue was taken on the 3rd of September on Ashdown Forest which is heathland a little like the New Forest.

Thanks Neil and Si for your replies.

Jacob

Dogghound · #5 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 09:23 AM

The sawfly larvae is Athalia rosae

aeshna5 · #6 (**permalink**) 12-10-2007, 06:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scarlet Pimpernel

The picture of the blue was taken on the 3rd of September on Ashdown Forest which is heathland a little like the New Forest.

Thanks Neil and Si for your replies.

Jacob

It isn't a blue ( though in same family- Lycaenidae), but as Wildlifesnapper says it's a Small copper.