Anyone know about moths??????

brittone05 · #1 (**permalink**) 19-09-2007, 05:32 PM

Okay, so my friend and I werein her garden today and thought we saw a slug! When we lookd agian we saw it was a bloomin hugeee caterpillar!

I have pics on her PC which I am awaiting but we went onto UK Moths and the pics ont her ehave confrired it is a Elephant hawk moth caterpillar.

Can anyone throw any more info into the hat on them please?

It is a rather large species from what I can gather and the moth itself is pink and yellow- very pretty indeed.

Any help or advice is much appreciated

This is what they ;look like - notmy pics obviously but this is exactly hte same

Moth & Butterfly Gallery 1

Fangio · #2 (**permalink**) 19-09-2007, 06:09 PM

Nope, but try contacting Tropical Wings - that is their speciality (butterflies and moths) for info:

Tropical Wings Homepage

brittone05 · #3 (**permalink**) 19-09-2007, 06:21 PM

Thanks Fangio will go see now

Fangio · #4 (**permalink**) 19-09-2007, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by brittone05

Thanks Fangio will go see now

Good luck!

brittone05 · #5 (**permalink**) 20-09-2007, 12:58 PM

The guy at Tropical wings was off

BUT I have just spoken to Mr Kendall of Kendall Bioresearch - what a lovely guy!

He was really helpful and has told me how to successfully pupate the caterpillar myself. They are apprently quite common although I am 27 this year and have never seen one before!!

So I will get pics up soon for you all and keep your fingers crossed that we cna pupate the little guy, now named Herbert, successfully an next spring, I can show you some pics of him freshly emerged form his pupae

stephenie191 · #6 (**permalink**) 20-09-2007, 01:01 PM

I found one not long ago

Posted on here somwere
HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELP! omg!

ITS AN ELEPHANT HAWK MOTH!

Pritt wierd aren't they

feorag · #7 (**permalink**) 20-09-2007, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by brittone05

They are apprently quite common although I am 27 this year and have never seen one before!!

I found one in my garden a couple of years ago and I'd never seen one before either.

I hope you can manage to pupate it and eventually get the moth out. I did it many years ago with some caterpillars I bought from a shop. They pupated, hatched and laid eggs, then when the eggs hatched out the next year I put the caterpillars on a nearby willow tree. It was fascinating to do.

brittone05 · #8 (**permalink**) 20-09-2007, 04:06 PM

Thanks folks

Stephanie -I missed your thread completely lol but thankfully managed to find Mr Kendall's webist ehe was really helpful and seemed pleased when i suggested I would pupate it myself at home

Eileen - I would love to maybe get some little catterpillars and tryt o have a bash at letting them run thier cycle with me right through to laing eggs again

feorag · #9 (**permalink**) 20-09-2007, 08:48 PM

Try it!! My kids found it all fascinating. It was years ago now, we were househunting in Hampshire and I found this little shop in Whitchurch. He had all sorts of caterpillars and pupae.

I can't remember now which caterpillars I got, I just remember they fed on willow leaves. So we brought them home and put them in a propagator. Watching them pupate was fascinating and then they came out, laid their eggs and died. Unfortunately, because they hatched fairly quickly cos of the central heating in the house and there were no willow trees in leaf yet! By then we were living in Wallop, so I phoned the shop and asked what I should feed them and he said hawthorn, so me and the kids rushed out searching for hawthorn hedges with any leaves on. Once the willow trees came out, we set all the caterpillars free - I loved the whole experience. We also bought 3 pupae, again I can't remember what they were, but they were very dark red, almost burgundy and quite big, but they never 'hatched out'. That was disappointing.

beardedgaz · #10 (**permalink**) 21-09-2007, 07:15 PM

go to bugnation.co.uk thell help #

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