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04-12-2008, 07:05 PM
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| | | Caterpillar Help ID plz
Never thought I'd find a caterpillar during the winter and this is my second find. Found the caterpillar at my sports club and right now he's munching on a lettuce leaf [hope this is ok for him, he must be hungry because he's eating away like there's no tomorrow!!
He's about 1.25 - 1.5 inches brown in colour and has black half circles along his sides, the half circles some have a light colour underneath.
[If I can upload a picture I will post] |
04-12-2008, 07:18 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: knowle, solihull (just south of b'ham)
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| | | Re: Caterpillar Help ID plz
keep trying with that picture! i'll look up late caterpillars and larvae and see what i find.   |
04-12-2008, 07:32 PM
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| | | Re: Caterpillar Help ID plz
Could only get photo with mobile...hence quality! 
You can see what looks like half circles along his sides and his underside is an orange/brown colour. |
04-12-2008, 07:34 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: knowle, solihull (just south of b'ham)
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ahhh yes.. i'll get flicking through my collin's |
05-12-2008, 06:24 AM
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| | | Re: Caterpillar Help ID plz
Sadly during the night the caterpillar died, he was found this morning...RIP little guy. |
05-12-2008, 06:57 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: On the southern boundary of the Lake District National Park.
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| | | Re: Caterpillar Help ID plz
Lettuce say a little prayer for him. |
05-12-2008, 07:41 AM
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| | | Re: Caterpillar Help ID plz
No, our lettuce muncher is not dead - When I found him this morning he was motionless for just about an hour and I feared the lettuce was too much for him!
The all of a sudden he was alive again..I need to find the correct food for him. |
05-12-2008, 08:57 AM
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| | | Re: Caterpillar Help ID plz
Its the larvae of the large yellow underwing Noctua pronuba, most moths overwinter as a caterpillar rather than an adult. They eat almost any herbaceous plant, its fine eating lettuce. They are low maintenance . |
05-12-2008, 09:26 AM
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05-12-2008, 09:28 AM
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Just proves the power of prayer! | | | |
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