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Post by bittymatriarch on Jun 17, 2007 15:48:02 GMT
Just a couple of my lilies:  Now. can anyone identify this caterpillar, chomping away on the Verbascum which is now almost completely flowerless:  Ann |
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Post by carlott on Jun 17, 2007 16:13:59 GMT
Have a look here for your caterpillar www.javajane.co.uk/Smooth/index.htmlIf you have no luck I will ask Tiglets brother in law - mind the miserable bug(ger) did not answer my last query - perhaps I should not have included Sex in the title  Looks similar to a black swallowtail but the colour is different. Like the photo by the way. |
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Post by revmichael on Jun 17, 2007 17:08:02 GMT
What a pretty Caterpillar!!
But that wasn't the point you wanted to make, was it?
Seriously it is an nuisance when these little darlings eat our favourite plants.
I hope you can deal with it Betty and stop his/her friends coming along.
But very nice pictures all the same.
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Post by bittymatriarch on Jun 17, 2007 19:46:16 GMT
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Post by carlott on Jun 17, 2007 20:03:01 GMT
More attractive as a caterpillar than the adult moth  You should ask if they would like a decent photograph |
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Post by Janglers on Jun 17, 2007 23:45:14 GMT
I was looking at my lillies on Friday. "Oh", I thought. "What a lovely little red bug". Then I realised it was a dreaded lilly beetle. It is now splattered on my front path.
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Looks similar to a black swallowtail but the colour is different.
