Catipillars

[Scottie]

Does any one know their catipillers on here. Trying to identify one that I have seen twice now. It is bright green, hairy, black segments and has a red hairy horn at the rear. First spotted when we took a beech down then today when we were working on a evergreen oak. I think it may be a hawk moth because I found a Lime Hawk moth catipillar earlier this year and it also had a horn at the rear.

 

Sorry don't have photos. Won't be on the computer again until Saturday if I get the chance.

[Andy Collins]

Sorry I cant help much except by posting this link http://www.kendall-bioresearch.co.uk/moth1.htm#top which seems to cover most species in colour, hope its usefull!

[Amelanchier]

http://www.whatsthiscaterpillar.co.uk/

 

[Scottie]

Thanks. I finally found out what moth it was and it was the Pale Tussock Moth. It can be a massive defoliator of anything and my boss said that the Foresty Commision went all out to try and eradicate it on their plantions. It looks quite a boring moth.

[Will Hinchliffe]

Sounds exactly like a catipillar I found last Tuesday on a holm Oak in Westbury. Did it have a yellow mohawk and a band of hair on the sides ?

 

I couldnt ID it with my book.

[Treegeek]

Had one of those sucker crawling up my neck last week in Bovington Dorset.

Had i know it eats trees I'd have trode on the git