"Martin Sykes" wrote in message
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"nick gray" wrote in message
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"Laurence Wilmer" wrote in
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What's small, green with black spots and a yellow head, and can strip
a
standard rose of all its leaves in 2 days?
I'm not sure which caterpiller you have but it looks like Melanargia
galathea / Marbled White, see http://www.whatsthiscaterpillar.co.uk/ for
more information, along with photographs.


On the site you mentioned, there is the following picture of a sawfly
larvae. It's a dead ringer for the OPs picture

http://www.javajane.co.uk/Smooth/sli...possibly2.html

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Martin & Anna Sykes
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Thanks Martin,

Yep, totally agree with you that's the critter. Although the title of that
picture is interesting SawflyLarvaepossibly2 :-) Maybe the author of that
site isn't so sure either.

I've found another site
http://members.tripod.com/buggyrose/...esawflies.html that has a
similar looking Rose Sawfly. Control methods are also described on this
site.

Cheers

Nick
www.ukgardening.co.uk