"ook?!": caterpillar ID please

Tuesday 6 October 2015

Any suggestions?

Now found that it is a Peppered Moth...or rather will be next year!

Andrea Ingram said...: I think that may be Brian. Looks like him :-); 6 October 2015 at 18:26
kjsutcliffe said...: ?shoulder stripe moth caterpillar?http://www.bugsandweeds.co.uk/moths%20p2.html#ShouldStr; 6 October 2015 at 18:34
Relatively Retiring said...: Send it to Pohangina Pete?; 6 October 2015 at 18:55
gz said...: I've got it!...http://ukmoths.org.uk/species/biston-betularia/larva-8/; 6 October 2015 at 21:05
gz said...: the peppered moth; 6 October 2015 at 21:06
Fresca said...: Oh---while I was "researching" you got it!

I was just going to post my findings:
So cool!
I googled "British caterpillar looks like green stick" and it looks like a peppered moth caterpillar (?).
I've never heard of such a thing---does that sound familiar?

This Cornwall blog even posted a photo of one on October 4 (2013)
www.cornwallwildlifetrust.org.uk/wildlife/wildlife_gardening/wildlife_garden_blog/wildlife_garden_blog_2013; 6 October 2015 at 21:09
Julia said...: Andrea :); 7 October 2015 at 06:48
Jenny Woolf said...: I don't know - but isn't it well disguised!; 7 October 2015 at 16:33
Andrea Ingram said...: TBH, I think it was bad form to put Brian up on an ID photo call without any other caterpillars in the line. Just saying; 7 October 2015 at 17:20