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05-08-2011, 01:45 PM
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| | | Caterpillar on redcurrant
Can anyone ID this little beauty please? A "herd" of them have destroyed my little redcurrant in under 2 days. The biggest ones are about an inch long. 
This is what's left of the bush: 
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05-08-2011, 01:59 PM
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| | | Re: Caterpillar on redcurrant
Just a guess is it a Mullein might very well be wrong.
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05-08-2011, 02:02 PM
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| | | Re: Caterpillar on redcurrant
Looks like it could be a sawfly larvae? Don't know Sawfly species though, so I'll leave that to someone else lol.
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05-08-2011, 02:20 PM
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| | | Re: Caterpillar on redcurrant
It looks like a Mullein, but all pics I can see of Mullein have yellow all the way along, this one seems to only have it on it's head and tail 
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05-08-2011, 03:17 PM
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| | | Re: Caterpillar on redcurrant
It's Gooseberry sawfly larva - they like currants as well!
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05-08-2011, 04:40 PM
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| | | Re: Caterpillar on redcurrant
Its a sawfly. Count the legs...........butterflies and moths have, counting from the front, 6 then 4 then 2, though sometimes less. Any more than this and its a sawfly. |
05-08-2011, 04:53 PM
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| | | Re: Caterpillar on redcurrant
many thanks everyone. Gooseberry sawfly is a perfect match. thanks for the info about the legs Triops.
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