Caterpillar ID Help Please

clairescavys · #1 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 08:34 PM

Hi everyone

I had quite a lot of these caterpillars in my garden during the summer. Photo is attached (hopefully)

If anyone can identify this caterpillar, I would be most grateful.

Thanks very much.

Hedera · #2 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 10:26 PM

Looks like Large white -Cabbage butterfly to me.

Tracey.A · #3 (**permalink**) 30-10-2009, 10:46 PM

Looks like a Large white to me as well.

Tracey

Lance Morgan · #4 (**permalink**) 01-11-2009, 11:23 AM

It is LW butterfly

clairescavys · #5 (**permalink**) 01-11-2009, 01:45 PM

Hi everyone

Thanks very much for your replies - very helpful and much appreciated. Now have a new caterpillar to add to my (limited) caterpillar knowledge!

clairescavys · #6 (**permalink**) 01-11-2009, 02:40 PM

Actually, I have another unknown (to me anyway) caterpillar - photo is below. If anyone could tell me what this one is, it would be much appreciated. I cannot find it in my books or via Google.

Hedera · #7 (**permalink**) 01-11-2009, 04:51 PM

This looks like a Garden Tiger Moth caterpillar (or woolly bear!)

aeshna5 · #8 (**permalink**) 01-11-2009, 05:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Hedera

This looks like a Garden Tiger Moth caterpillar (or woolly bear!)

Agree- used to see loads of these around my parent's garden in west London as a youngster, but now much rarer around London. I have seen large numbers of these woolly bears in the Norfolk Broads this summer + was good to see a few adults at moth trap sessions in the Highlands also this summer.