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What was that caterpillar?
Secret Squirrel
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Hi, just been today clearing the last of the summer annuals in the my raised flower beds, and I have found quite a lot of caterpillars. They were about half to an inch long and a kind of pale dirty olive green colour
I was throwing them on the grass, much to the robins delight. The plants I had in there were french marigolds, lobelia and silver dust.
Any idea what the caterpillars might have been?
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Hard to tell without a photo - were they on plants or in the soil?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Hi DFA, in the soil, curled up
we need a photo
In the sticks near Peterborough
Did they look like this?
If so it's a leatherjacket (larvae of crane fly) and you did exactly the right thing - let the birds have them.
But can you find some more and show us a photo just to be sure?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
thats em! I have just crossed ref. it with Goggle Image. I do not think I'll find anymore, thats me finished clearing borders and raised flower beds for this year.
Thanks for your help Dovefromabove, coo coo
Little blighters - but a nice dinner for the robin.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
starlings love them too!