A few larvae found this week.

I’ve found a few caterpillars this week, mainly just by chance and not really looking too hard! Found a larva of the Brimstone moth crawling on the wall of one of our worksheds, probably blown out of the trees by the wind. Also found a larva of the Peppered moth on the young regrowth of a Birch tree, simply because it had eaten all the leaves leaving the bare twigs! The only larva I’ve had a bit of a search for (and it hasn’t taken very long to find at all the spots I’ve checked) has been the Yarrow pug. These can be found now on the seed-heads, either by hand searching or by tapping the heads into a net. I located larvae at 3 different spots on the golf course, seems to be a good year for it as I don’t normally find that many.

Neil

Yarrow pug larva on seed-head.

Brimstone moth larva.

Peppered moth larva.

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