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09-06-2010, 09:20 PM
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| | Help identifying larvae/caterpillars please! Hi, I came across these in our school nature garden in Hampshire this afternoon. Any help with an ident would be gratefully recieved!
This one is on a grass blade, possibly Yorkshire Fog. there were only one or two of them
The second one was on Viburnum opulus
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11-06-2010, 06:55 PM
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| | | Re: Help identifying larvae/caterpillars please! Managed to sneak out this afternoon and found a larger version of the one in the first picture (not much, maybe 1mm larger). Didn't have my camera but I can clarify that it seems to be a beetle or something as opposed to a butterfly/moth as it had just 3 pairs of legs at the front and the bristles are branched if that helps. I have searched through every image I can find with no luck so far | 
11-06-2010, 07:03 PM
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| | Re: Help identifying larvae/caterpillars please! The second photo shows the Viburnum Beetle larva, Pyrrhalta viburni, which attacks various Viburnum species, but seems particularly partial to the native Guelder Rose, V. opulus. | 
11-06-2010, 08:32 PM
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| | | Re: Help identifying larvae/caterpillars please! Ah, thankyou! I am trying to identify them so I can show the children what they will grow into. They were amazed at what a "baby" ladybird looked like! |  | | | Thread Tools | | | | Display Modes | Linear Mode |
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