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21-08-2010, 09:06 AM
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| | | caterpiller id please.
Found this little guy on my front door frame a few days ago and then he was gone and what i can only describe as a small quaver crisp appeared 
Would really like to know what he is.   |
21-08-2010, 09:30 AM
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| | | Re: caterpiller id please.
I think it`s a Painted Lady 
I haven`t seen one this year.........yet!
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21-08-2010, 09:38 AM
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| | | Re: caterpiller id please.
I've just had a look on UKleps and the pupa is wrong for a Painted Lady (always assuming that the pupa is the same as the cat  ) but other than that I can't help 
Sorry,
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21-08-2010, 12:51 PM
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| | | Re: caterpiller id please.
Yeah thats the thing it is an assumption that they are the same animal. The cat was there for two days on the second day it had moved down to where the "quaver" now is and on the third day the cat had gone and the "quaver" was there.
I gave it a very gentle little poke and it seems to be very soft if that helps anyone.
Im quite keen to try and find out what this is as its in a high traffic area being on my front door frame. Although having said that i dont see what i can do to protect it. |
21-08-2010, 04:17 PM
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| | | Re: caterpiller id please.
Caterpillar is definately some kind of Nymphalid butterfly, quite probably the Painted Lady mentioned before. The "quaver" is not the pupa of that caterpillar though, as they pupate in a simple silk sling with the pupa plainly obvious. It could be that the caterpillar was parasitised and the fly larva burrowed out and spun its cocoon around the dead host or it could be totally unrelated to the caterpillar...   | | |
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