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Cultivation => Cultivation Problems => Topic started by: ian mcenery on April 22, 2014, 03:28:10 PM

Title: ID please
Post by: ian mcenery on April 22, 2014, 03:28:10 PM

I found this very odd caterpillar type thingie eating a cyclamen leaf. It has exceptional camouflage . Can anyone ID please

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Maggi Young on April 22, 2014, 06:53:23 PM

I'm very tempted to say that it's  this :

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Percival the plain little caterpillar       ;D ;)

 but I think it may be a type of "looper" caterpillar - I believe they're in the Geometridae section of moths..... Anthony will know.

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: ian mcenery on April 22, 2014, 07:01:31 PM

Quote from: Maggi Young on April 22, 2014, 06:53:23 PM

I'm very tempted to say that it's  this :

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Percival the plain little caterpillar       ;D ;)

 but I think it may be a type of "looper" caterpillar - I believe they're in the Geometridae section of moths..... Anthony will know.

It looks like you are on the right track there Maggi. Though I would have preferred it to be Percival   ;D

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 24, 2014, 11:58:11 AM

Looper caterpillars belong to the family Geometridae. Many feed in trees and shrubs, but some will feed on just about anything. Difficult to ID though without taking it through to the moth.

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Lesley Cox on April 24, 2014, 12:12:22 PM

Looks like a bit of dead stick to me. ???

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Maggi Young on April 24, 2014, 12:43:00 PM

Quote from: Lesley Cox on April 24, 2014, 12:12:22 PM

Looks like a bit of dead stick to me. ???

Aha! That's what it wants you to think, Lesley  ;)

Title: Re: ID please
Post by: Anthony Darby on April 25, 2014, 05:37:20 AM

Ian twigged to that, hence the photo.  ;D