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Catapillar Identification

  • 21-08-2010 4:15pm
    #1
    Lumi
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,466 ✭✭✭


    Can anyone help with identifying this beauty. It's over an inch long
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  • #2
    Black Heart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭Black Heart


    Elephant hawk-moth caterpillar.

    http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=60


  • #3
    e-Mo0?
    Registered Users Posts: 254 ✭✭e-Mo0?


    Found this this morning just wonder what it is?

    Its got a small hook or spike on its back and 4 on the bottom front. Also four what look like eyes or dots on its front.

    34iivc4.jpg


  • #4
    Mothman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,498 ✭✭✭Mothman


    This is a Caterpillar of the Elephant Hawk-moth. Probably on the hunt for a pupation site where it'll settle down until next summer.
    Quite a few being reported at moment.
    Foodplants are Rosebay Willowherb, Fuschia, Bogbean, Waterlily...yes it can swim! Probably uses other plants as well.
    Link 1
    Link 2
    Recorded Irish distribution
    I'd like to enter this record in the national database.
    Would you PM me location and Grid Reference?
    try using www.gridreference.ie


  • #5
    nkfox
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭nkfox


    Hi,
    We found this catapillar near our veg patch in the back garden.

    It is about 2 inches long and about 1/2 in in diameter.

    I have attached a coupple of photos. I would love to know what it turns into. If anyone has any ideas, please post them on the board.

    Thanks,

    Neil


  • #6
    nkfox
    Registered Users Posts: 47 ✭nkfox


    After further investigation I think it may be a Elephant Hawk-moth but I may be wrong.


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  • #7
    Black Heart
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 82 ✭✭Black Heart


    It sure is :)


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