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12-08-2008, 01:06 PM
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| |  2 Caterpillars ID
1) I found this caterpillar a few days ago. It was bright green and fat! 
it looked a lot like this 
(not my photo) photo belongs to Hindpool. (photo taken from Gallery)
2) I found this caterpillar back at the beginning of MARCH on a nettle at local nature reserve. I never IDed it.  |
12-08-2008, 03:09 PM
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| | | Re: 2 Caterpillars ID
Hi
well - the first is a hawkmoth  
The second looks like an Angle Shades Moth
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12-08-2008, 07:42 PM
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| | | Re: 2 Caterpillars ID
The 1st looks like a poplar hawkmoth judging by the horn colour. |
13-08-2008, 08:46 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: 2 Caterpillars ID
Agreed
1. Poplar Hawk
2. Angleshades
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19-09-2008, 11:30 PM
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| | | Re: 2 Caterpillars ID
On Tuesday, my 9 year old Son found this Hawkmoth Caterpillar in the middle of a playing field and brought it home. Today, while we were out. These egg-shaped excretions have appeared. 
Could anybody shed any light onto what these things are? Please?  |
19-09-2008, 11:35 PM
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| | | Re: 2 Caterpillars ID
Hi
they are the pupae of a type of parasitic fly/wasp. The larvae feed on the insides the hawkmoth caterpillar and when fully grown they emerge to form the pupae on the outside of the skin as in your photo.
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