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Produce => Wildlife forum => Topic started by: Froglegs on September 30, 2009, 10:37:47

Title: Alien
Post by: Froglegs on September 30, 2009, 10:37:47

Found this when i was digging me buckwheat.........is it of this world....... :o

Title: Re: Alien
Post by: manicscousers on September 30, 2009, 16:01:25

weird, aren't they, wonder what kind of moth/caterpillar is going to crawl out of it?  :)

Title: Re: Alien
Post by: macmac on September 30, 2009, 16:17:35

What's the betting it's got a big appetite   :o\

Title: Re: Alien
Post by: lewic on September 30, 2009, 19:38:18

Wow thats big! Looks like some kind of hawk moth. I found a bright green one that size when I was digging up some carpet, really should have taken a photo.

Title: Re: Alien
Post by: saddad on September 30, 2009, 19:38:50

I get them too... I think they are our "grasshoppers" as I only get them on the bottom plots where there is rough grass..  :-\

Title: Re: Alien
Post by: small on September 30, 2009, 22:22:18

Is it a cinnabar moth pupa? I get lots of these though yours does look on the large side.

Title: Re: Alien
Post by: misfit on October 01, 2009, 11:19:25

i would say its a hawk moth of some kind

(http://www.darwincountry.org/assets/userfiles/large/sy4452.jpg)

this is the deaths head hawk moth

Title: Re: Alien
Post by: Robert_Brenchley on October 01, 2009, 20:48:46

Have you any privet (Privet hawk moth) or evening primrose (elephant hawk moth) nearby?

Title: Re: Alien
Post by: saddad on October 01, 2009, 20:50:15

There's a privet hedge down there too... so Hawk Moth it is then... I'll leave them alone..  :)