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11-05-2010, 09:05 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Hairy caterpillar ID please
Any idea what this might be, found in a north Shropshire field?  |
11-05-2010, 09:07 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Re: Hairy caterpillar ID please
I should say, there is a more enlargable pic of this on my blog - not sure why this one here won't go any bigger. |
11-05-2010, 09:11 AM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
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| | | Re: Hairy caterpillar ID please
Looks like the caterpillar of The Drinker Moth |
11-05-2010, 09:17 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Re: Hairy caterpillar ID please
Ta. I thought it was probably a moth, but had no idea from there. |
11-05-2010, 09:56 AM
|  | Knight Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Small North Lincolnshire village
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| | | Re: Hairy caterpillar ID please
Yep I would definitely say a Drinker moth Caterpillar. some of them can get quite large and seen at close quarters they are a very prettily marked caterpillar |
11-05-2010, 09:59 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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Cheers. |
12-05-2010, 08:28 AM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Re: Hairy caterpillar ID please
Over the last two days I've developed a browny-orange stain on my fingers. Could it be from the moth? If so, any idea how long it will last? It looks awful, but won't come off even with scrubbing. |
13-05-2010, 09:33 PM
| | Member of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: South Yorkshire
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| | | Re: Hairy caterpillar ID please
Never got a stain from Drinkers, but did get a nasty rash from the hairs on them when handled  |
13-05-2010, 09:40 PM
| | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Shropshire
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| | | Re: Hairy caterpillar ID please
It must be pollen or sap. | | |
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