Amazingly another Goat moth larva was found today on the golf course, by a couple of guys repairing some steps, not too far from a row of large old Oak pollards. It had spun up a cocoon in the rotten wood under one of the steps, so they placed the rotten step in the undergrowth close by for me to go and see later in the afternoon, but, by the time I got there the larva had moved on unfortunately. This is another spot on the site where I have trapped the moth in the past so again there must be a colony of them close by, probably in one of the Oaks but there doesn’t appear to be any external evidence of that as I have looked before.
On top of that, one of the other staff called me over to a large Pine tree this afternoon, saying that there was a big green caterpillar wandering around underneath it. Turned out to be a Pine hawk larva – the ground-staff here are getting good at finding interesting caterpillars!
Neil
You’re kidding!