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21-09-2008, 12:50 PM
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| | | I.D. Help on this Caterpillar please?
Can anyone give me an i.d. on this caterpillar please.... 
Thanks
Dave |
21-09-2008, 03:57 PM
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| | | Re: I.D. Help on this Caterpillar please?
Looks like 1 of the geometrid moths to me. |
21-09-2008, 06:40 PM
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| | | Re: I.D. Help on this Caterpillar please?
Apologies, I forgot to give what may be pertinent info.
Photographed Sunday 21 Sept near Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire.
Total length approx 1.25 inches.
Found on 'green waste' bin after filling with cuttings of Sweet Pea, Californian Violet, Heebie, and Cotoneaster (may have been present on either of these).
Dave |
21-09-2008, 06:50 PM
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| | | Re: I.D. Help on this Caterpillar please?
An early instar Biston betularia the peppered moth. |
22-09-2008, 09:43 AM
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| | | Re: I.D. Help on this Caterpillar please?
Thanks folks, especially 'Dogghound'!
Spot on!
Dave |
22-09-2008, 12:17 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Grantham, Lincolnshire
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| | | Re: I.D. Help on this Caterpillar please?
From date of find and plants given my money is on a Common Marbled Carpet.
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22-09-2008, 12:22 PM
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| | | Re: I.D. Help on this Caterpillar please?
It lacks the two spurs at the end of its body? also its head is the wrong shape and colour. Biston betularia is polyphagus so is also likely to be found on these plants, and at this stage at this date. |
22-09-2008, 12:23 PM
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| | | Re: I.D. Help on this Caterpillar please?
Hi
with the head shape, warts and red spiracles I'd agree with Peppered Moth.
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22-09-2008, 12:31 PM
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| | | Re: I.D. Help on this Caterpillar please?
Sorry dogghound WLS you're quite right.  
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22-09-2008, 12:35 PM
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| | | Re: I.D. Help on this Caterpillar please?
No need to be sorry Lance.  | | | |
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