Caterpillar Identification Please

[emmadibbs]

Hiya all you clever people

No doubt this is a common caterpillar that I should be able to find out about but after looking through loads of piccies of various caterpillars I just can't find it!! They are (or rather have) completely eaten a shrub in my garden in one day alone, not sure if they will move on somewhere else or what, hopefully my whole garden will not be eaten or else they may have to be relocated to the woods opposite me!!

Hopefully these piccies work!






Thank you for your help.

[wildlifesnapper]

Hi

they are Sawfly larvae , possibly of the Croesus family.

neil

[emmadibbs]

Oh no!! They are horrid things! Did a search and found them to be Nematus capreae (N. miliaris). Think they will be relocated to the woods tonight to eat the trees there rather than my garden, they seem to have a rather voracious appetite!

Thank you for your help!!