hmm. a similar beautiful caterpillar is the verbascum hawk moth - but they did not seem to be too devastating to my verbascums this year, despite being named as public enemy no 1 on this forum! The one shown above did virtually no damage - but then euphorbias are prertty tough cookies.
@Valley Gardener very impressive, I could imagine its eye spots giving someone a shock when they're not expecting it. Equally impressive is dragging this thread out of 2013! 😆
Thankyou for that @Alan Clark2 in Liverpool It wasnt happy at being disturbed,and lashed about a bit, like those huge Centipedes that we came across in Spain.
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hmm. a similar beautiful caterpillar is the verbascum hawk moth - but they did not seem to be too devastating to my verbascums this year, despite being named as public enemy no 1 on this forum! The one shown above did virtually no damage - but then euphorbias are prertty tough cookies.
Equally impressive is dragging this thread out of 2013! 😆