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Huge green caterpillar-any ideas (ID)?

janebuckingham71@yahoo.co.uk[email protected] Posts: 279
in Wildlife gardening
Does anyone recognise this?
Found in the garden
Around 4 inch long, almost an inch thick
Bright lime green
Smooth, no hairs
White and purple stripes
Long black tail

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I think that one is the Privet Hawkmoth caterpillar


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • ButtercupdaysButtercupdays Posts: 4,546
    Privet hawk moth, eats privet, lilac and ash.
  • janebuckingham71@yahoo.co.uk[email protected] Posts: 279
    Thanks Nut! Just googled a pic and it is.!
    We have lots of privet so I guess it makes sense. I am slightly scared of such a monster caterpillar so I’ll put it under the (privet) hedge.
    You do know everything !
    Thank you!

  • janebuckingham71@yahoo.co.uk[email protected] Posts: 279
    Thanks too Buttercupdays (great name!) 
  • FireFire Posts: 19,096
    Wow!
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Magnificent things aren't they?  I remember the first one I ever found ... in a cornfield underneath an ash tree ... I was about 11 years old  :)

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • janebuckingham71@yahoo.co.uk[email protected] Posts: 279
    Amazing Dove yes, genuinely never seen one before, hence the post, can’t believe that thing will ever fly h ha! 
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
     :D 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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