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13-08-2007, 08:53 PM
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| |  another unidentifed caterpliiar
I have been given a hawkmoth caterpiller as long as your little finger which is light grey on top and salmon pink underneath the tail point is lime green and has a straw coloured horseshoe shape underneath.
I have never seen anything that looks like it at all
please could you help?
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13-08-2007, 09:02 PM
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| | | Re: another unidentifed caterpliiar
Lime hawk? Mimas tiliae sounds similar |
13-08-2007, 09:04 PM
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| | | Re: another unidentifed caterpliiar
I think on second thoughts it to be a bedstraw hawkmoth. the books say it is always pink underneath, what do you think? |
13-08-2007, 09:08 PM
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| | | Re: another unidentifed caterpliiar
Bedstraws are dark green and have about 10 yellow dots down there sides, there spike is usually red. Doesnt sound like you description.  |
13-08-2007, 09:12 PM
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| | | Re: another unidentifed caterpliiar
Yes you are right I have now looked in the Readers digest insect book and this caterpiller looks similar to mine (bedstraw) but Chinery shows the one you describe. But it is as far as I know not lime moth |
13-08-2007, 09:36 PM
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| | | Re: another unidentifed caterpliiar
A similar species to the bedstraw is the Spurge Hawk-moth Hyles euphorbiae, although it is a migrant. | | |
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