Caterpillar for ID please

Janenat · #1 (**permalink**) 18-04-2011, 03:28 PM

Hello

Saw this one on the fence on saturday, thought it was a bit of honeysuckle twig it was next to at first!

(Don't know what the black blob is, don't think it has anything to do with the caterpillar!)

Many thanks
Jane

Lance Morgan · #2 (**permalink**) 19-04-2011, 07:48 AM

its a looper ..One of the umbers or thorns

Janenat · #3 (**permalink**) 19-04-2011, 08:49 AM

Thank you

Jane

UB4 gardener · #4 (**permalink**) 19-04-2011, 06:26 PM

same scenario, honeysuckle again. from a few years ago. from memory (i didn't label the photo) scalloped oak was the closest i could get

Chris

Janenat · #5 (**permalink**) 20-04-2011, 09:26 AM

thank you, I've been looking through various sites but haven't found an exact match, don't know enough about them to know if they can be different colours?The pics I've seen of the scalloped oak caterpillar are darker, same with the scarce umber

Jane

UB4 gardener · #6 (**permalink**) 20-04-2011, 08:08 PM

The site i use is Eggs, Larvae, Pupae and Adult Butterflies and Moths
if you scroll down in the scalloped oak pictures you will find a paler version. which is the one i checked mine against.
Chris

Janenat · #7 (**permalink**) 21-04-2011, 08:08 AM

thank you - excellent site have bookmarked it, and yes agree with the scalloped oak now, also one of the pics also had a black blob like mine beside it - coincidence?

Thanks again
Jane