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HUGE Caterpillar! ID ?
On 13/08/2013 11:13, Chris Hogg wrote:
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. Poplar hawk moth http://tinyurl.com/n6ypsc9 or possibly the Privet hawk moth http://tinyurl.com/kun92z2. Certainly a hawk moth of some sort. Death's Head Hawk Moth, whose caterpillar feeds on the potato plant. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/s...ontia-atropos/ -- Spider from high ground in SE London gardening on clay |
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