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05-08-2009, 09:59 AM
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| |  slug-like creature
picking up leaves from lawn and saw a slug-like creature walking across lawn.
it is a fawny colour, about 2 1/2 inches long, with a blue stinger at rear, but sticking up on its back. I went to pick it up on a leaf and it went mad, curling its body head to rear very quickly, and the blue stinger kept impaling the leaf.
very quick movement for a "slug", and haved never seen one before. yellow stuff came out of its rear whilst it was trying to "sting" the leaf. I have now put it in a jar, until I can find out what it is. Thanks
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05-08-2009, 10:01 AM
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Hi Burton, welcome to WAB! Photo please! Sounds interesting... |
05-08-2009, 10:02 AM
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| | | Re: slug-like creature
Possibly an Elephant Hawkmoth Caterpillar? |
05-08-2009, 10:12 AM
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| | | Re: slug-like creature
Lime Hawkmoth by size and prepupal fawn and blue horn. This is harmless by the way.
Put it back and it will find somewhere to burrow and pupate 
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06-08-2009, 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Lance Morgan  Lime Hawkmoth by size and prepupal fawn and blue horn. This is harmless by the way.
Put it back and it will find somewhere to burrow and pupate | thanks a lot, I have now done that, and it climbed a tree and disappeared. |
13-08-2009, 11:32 AM
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| | | Re: slug-like creature
My Kitten brought what I can only describe as a blue horned slug/leech into the house yesterday and it sounds very similar.
Once i'd wrestled it off the cat, i was trying to protect it whilst getting glass to pick it up with.
It was a matte grey colour with a flat end and tapered down into a point, weirdest of all it appeared to have a blue horn on the flat end! It was still at first but suddenly started thrashing around wildly causing me to yelp and run away :-)
Any clues as to what this is? |
13-08-2009, 11:51 AM
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Hi Lady, welcome to WAB
Do you/can you get a photo, or even draw it please? For now, it sounds like a hawk moth caterpillar perhaps. |
13-08-2009, 12:34 PM
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Sounds like a Lime Hawk-moth:  |
15-08-2009, 11:22 AM
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It looked a bit like this but was thick and short. There were no other colours present on its body but we put it outsdie so i've no way of photographing it |
15-08-2009, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Lady It was still at first but suddenly started thrashing around wildly causing me to yelp and run away | Come on, shape up 'Lady' you're subscribed to a wildlife site now - you need to toughen up!
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