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23 Aug 19, 04:44 PM |
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Apprentice Imagineer
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Help me identify this creature?!
If you don’t like bugs and stuff, look away now!
DD found the below creature in the garage today. She thought it was a slug at first, but on closer inspection it definitely isn’t! It was maybe 4 inches long, looked crusty and had a weird ridged body underneath (I imagine to help it shuffle along). Eurgh, gives me the heebie-jeebies just looking at it! Can anyone identify what it is?! DD has decided it was a “clug” (crocodile/slug), but we’d quite like to know an actual identity for this mini beast if anyone can help? |
23 Aug 19, 04:46 PM |
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Looks like some sort of Caterpillar...
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23 Aug 19, 04:46 PM |
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Is it green in colour? quite plump around? If yes its a Privet Hawk Moth caterpiller - harmless
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23 Aug 19, 04:47 PM |
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I think it’s a sort of hawk moth caterpillar, but Clug is so much better!
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23 Aug 19, 04:55 PM |
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Bon viveur and shopaholic
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It actually looks like the jelly worm I hoovered up from under my sofa yesterday
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23 Aug 19, 04:55 PM |
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Thread Starter
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I didn’t even think of a type of caterpillar - I didn’t realise they could be so big!
It wasn’t green - it was brown, crusty and dusty! It had cobweb stuck to it. When I googled hawk moth caterpillar, I think it looks like the elephant hawk moth caterpillar. I was googling “slug like creatures” which is probably why I couldn’t find an identity for it. It’s safely in the field behind the house now and no caterpillars were harmed. |
23 Aug 19, 05:42 PM |
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Helping Mickey
Join Date: Jan 09
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It’s the caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk Moth. We’ve found one in our garden this year.
This is the caterpillar This is the moth which emerges after the over winter cocoon phase. It was munching on this (Rosebay Willowherb) which grows as weeds. HTH Edited at 05:57 PM. Reason: Adding photo |
23 Aug 19, 06:04 PM |
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Thread Starter
Apprentice Imagineer
Join Date: Mar 17
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It was definitely that!
I’ve never seen anything like it before. Ours was almost crusty looking, covered in cobwebs and in our garage. Goodness knows how long it’d been in there. I put it in the field behind the garden - hope it can survive okay in there? I don’t want to have sent it to it’s death! ETA - never seen a moth like that before - the colouring is amazing Edited at 06:06 PM. |
23 Aug 19, 06:20 PM |
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Helping Mickey
Join Date: Jan 09
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The moth (as with most moths) only come out at night. The colours of the moth are very close to the plant I found the caterpillar on so I guess they are well camouflaged during the day when they sit amongst the leaves and flowers.
I’ve never seen the moth myself, but it must be quite a size based on the size of the caterpillar. Edited at 06:22 PM. |
23 Aug 19, 09:16 PM |
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Join Date: Sep 11
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Hawk moth loads of these nature needs to fight back against the harm we do.
Getting off high horse and putting helmet on for dibbers who kill creepy crawlers . And ultimately will destroy the Earth. NB. I ain't no green worshiper just we need bugs. Save the bottom of food chain
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