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HUGE Caterpillar! ID ?
On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 11:50:48 +0200, David in Normandy
wrote: Just found a huge caterpillar while harvesting some potatoes. Never seen one this big in my life. Anyone recognise it or know what butterfly or moth variety it belongs to? http://s288.photobucket.com/user/uyq...illar.jpg.html Normally I kill caterpillars but didn't have the heart to kill this magnificent beast despite it scoffing my potato foliage; so I released it elsewhere in the garden. I'm fairly certain it's a European death's head hawk moth Acherontia atropos. If you are impressed by the caterpillar just wait until you see the moth. They are about 5" across. I raised one in a shoe box all the way to moth stage when I was a kid. They can make rather surprising sounds. They will kill honey bees to get into hives for the honey if that's relevant. The bees don't fight back. Steve -- EasyNN-plus. Neural Networks plus. http://www.easynn.com SwingNN. Forecast with Neural Networks. http://www.swingnn.com JustNN. Just Neural Networks. http://www.justnn.com |
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