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Garden Wildlife Identifier: Caterpillars
15.08.2024 - 15:39 / gardenersworld.com
The name ‘caterpillar’ comes from the old French word chatepelose, which means ‘hairy cat’. Caterpillars are the eating and growing stage of butterflies and moths. Many are green but others are intricately patterned, which makes them straightforward to identify.
While a few caterpillars might be considered minor pests because they nibble leaves or veg, most are discreet and secretive, feeding only on their allotted wild plants in quiet corners. Some however, including box tree caterpillar, can devastate plants.
Not all caterpillars are hairy (a defence against being eaten by birds, some of which choke on the bristles), with many being camouflaged like leaf curls or twigs, or warningly coloured (aposematism) to show that their bodies have stored distasteful chemicals from poisonous leaves.
When fully grown, most moth caterpillars descend to the ground and burrow into loose soil to spin a silk cocoon for the chrysalis, in which the earth-bound maggot magically transforms into an aerial adult. Butterfly caterpillars tend to make their chrysalis on or near their foodplant.
How to identify caterpillarsWhen finding caterpillars, the biggest clue to identifying them is to take note of where you found them. Many have specific host (food) plants and so if you find a caterpillar on a leaf you will be able to narrow down its identity by looking up caterpillars that feed on that type of leaf. For example, caterpillars found on nettles could be the larvae of small tortoiseshell, peacock, red admiral painted lady or comma butterflies, or the larvae of the garden tiger or mother of pearl moths. Secondly, take note of whether they are present individually or in a clump, as some species lay one egg at a time, while others lay all of
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