Caterpillars

Another caterpillar for me to get ID'd and recorded, I'm trying very hard to photograph as many as possible this year so that I can start on a pdf for IDing caterpillars as the resourses you can get are very expensive or not very complete. I should say also that if anyone wants to help with this project, and has british caterpillars or stages of, to contact me.

Another caterpillar for me to get ID'd and recorded, I'm trying very hard to photograph as many as possible this year so that I can start on a pdf for IDing caterpillars as the resourses you can get are very expensive or not very complete. I should say also that if anyone wants to help with this project, and has british caterpillars or stages of, to contact me.

I've been really trying to concentrait on Caterpillars this year so that I can have better ways of IDing them, so I'm always excited when I find a new one (and get an ID..lol) this was made better as its a Butterfly species, which we don't see cats of often.

I've been really trying to concentrait on Caterpillars this year so that I can have better ways of IDing them, so I'm always excited when I find a new one (and get an ID..lol) this was made better as its a Butterfly species, which we don't see cats of often.

Two years ago I resecued some Garlic Mustard from the footpath near my home (council weedwacked it to death a few days later!!) and it had three Orange-tip butterfly caterpillars on it. I really enjoyed them and had hoped the following year I would get them to visit me up on the balcony, no luck and it didn't even bloom :( This year however it did bloom, and I was ever so inspired by my contact Adrian Jones to look closely for eggs. And don't you know I found some!! Of course this shot is nothing like his beautiful one but I had to give it a try! I had to take about a Bazillion shots with two cameras to get just this one I could see anything in...hahaha Can't wait for the caterpillars :D

Final Instar. This is the update as promised to this photo , we found this guy feeding on Apple in the meadow before mothing. He is quite lovely now that he filled out a bit.

Often encountered somewhere sunning themselves.

I have another photo of this species but on further inspection don't think the ID is right, have had a good dig around and can't find it. Any help appreciated!

Some caterpillars for my records really, this was NOT a cooperative caterpillar!!

I have another photo of this species but on further inspection don't think the ID is right, have had a good dig around and can't find it. Any help appreciated!

Some caterpillars for my records really, this was NOT a cooperative caterpillar!!

We found this guy by doing a bit of beating, where you tap branches of trees or shrubs into a net. He was on Apple (Malus), Crab Apple we believe. He was hard to ID from this photo, more photos to come of him plumbed up and easier to ID

We found this guy by doing a bit of beating, where you tap branches of trees or shrubs into a net. He was on Apple (Malus), Crab Apple we believe. He was hard to ID from this photo, more photos to come of him plumbed up and easier to ID

Have yet to ID this moth caterpillar, but he kept poking in and out of his hiding house.

Just a photo to show second instar, too bad they are far to young to pose for a nice portrait...lol

Found some eggs a few weeks back and they hatched out finally, they have actually grown a lot and I will post new photos soon.

As of yet no ID. Very bumpy and potentially hairy...haha

Found this guy when I was spring cleaning.