What's this?

Hi Guys.

Found this in the apple orchard, it as a spiral patterned body with tiny red spots, and a barb on it's tail (approx 5cm long)

 

Hi Gort

I wuold say it's an Elephant Hawk Moth caterpillar ... three of them ate our grapevine the year before last ... beautiful moths, horrid green critters (although there is a cuteness to them) .... I call them Green Rubber Monsters!

 

Found this piccy on the net



Theres lots of pictures of the different hawk moth catterpillars here. http://www.pwbelg.clara.net/hawks/hawks.html

 

Here's my green rubber monsters ....






.... look at the eyes ... don't you just love them ... :luv: :hehe:

 

I feed the caterpillar I find to the chickens. They love them.

 

Done some research, narrowed it down to eyed hawk moth

 

Victoria-that one in the middle is fooling no-one-that is a toupe!!

 

Too true Claire ... have changed my second pic as I see just having come back on line I realised I doubled my pics .... :dh: ... you can now see a close up of the toupee .... :lollol:

What darlings they are .... if I hadn't seen them with my own eyes I would have thought they were rubber toys .... :hehe:

 

I gotta know.. DO THEY WAG THEIR TAILS :rotfl: