Good or bad caterpillar

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• AnniD Posts: 12,585

  April 2022

  Possibly some type of hawk moth ?

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• Sheps Posts: 2,236

  April 2022

  Looks like a Yellow Underwing Moth caterpillar, not sure if it will be a good guy.

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,445

  April 2022

  Time to stop dividing our wildlife into good and bad. It's all part of a balanced system until we interfere

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  April 2022

  Well I learnt to dislike those little angry waving caterpillars that ate my rose leaves. And I’m wary of hairy ones because their hairs are a serious irritant. I have lots of places for all kinds of critters in my garden but don’t need them eating up everything I plant either.

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• Alan Clark2 in Liverpool Posts: 2,190

  April 2022

  Not the best photograph, but I also think it might be a Yellow Underwing Moth, which is nothing to worry about. It will pupate soon.

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• Ilikeplants Posts: 894

  April 2022

  Thanks - it does look like the common yellow underwing moth. I’d rather it didn’t eat the tulips so I’ve put it in the wildlife  section.

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