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Caterpillar identification

h5m5syhfqfaWg5vfGnh5m5syhfqfaWg5vfGn Posts: 4
in Wildlife gardening
Anyone know what this guy is? I thought it might be a cabbage white but googling looks nothing like this chunker.


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  • Allotment BoyAllotment Boy Posts: 6,774
    edited July 2022
    Not sure but I think, it might be a moth larva  known as a cutworm. There are several species of Moth whose larva specialise in eating stems and roots rather than leaves and shoots
     They can hollow out the stem of plants and cause them to collapse .  They tend to be bigger and paler than most caterpillars 

    AB Still learning

  • h5m5syhfqfaWg5vfGnh5m5syhfqfaWg5vfGn Posts: 4
    May have stowed away on some veg from a friends garden 🐛
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