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caterpillars
Hi, just discovered 2 large green leaf looking caterpillars on one of my rose plants and trying to identify them. They look like poplar or eyed hawk moths but any caterpillar site I goggle does not say they are found on rose bushes. Can anyone please help this "confused soul"?
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Can you post a photo Amanda?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Sorry about delay but here is the pic you requested..
I can't see very clearly ... does it have a sort of horn-like thing on one end?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Snap Jo! Are you thinking what I'm thinking?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Yes it does have a tail spur, and the pic jo47 posted looks very much like them.
Oooh! I'm jealous!
I think it looks like a caterpillar of the Death's Head Hawk Moth - lucky lucky you
http://www.wildlifeinsight.com/20583/deaths-head-hawkmoth-caterpillars-in-the-uk/
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I will try take a better pic tomorrow
Sycamore moth caterpillar, one of ours
In the sticks near Peterborough