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gray_b
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Caterpiller ID ?I have scoured the internet, and all of my books but I cannot identify this caterpillar.
They is eating my quince leaves.
Any body any ideas, as I have 2 species in mind, but they are not quite correct to the books.
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johnc
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It's a Vapourer Moth caterpillar
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Tavascarow
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yep.
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gray_b
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That looks like the one.
I think I will move them off my quinces thou.
Wikipedia says they like Prunus, so I will put them onto some blackthorn. But I must watchout for the toxins on the bristles.
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Falstaff
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Don't worry about "Toxins" , you'll never notice them !
They'll be fine on Blackthorn or hawthorn and since the females have no wings, wherever you put them, you're pretty much starting new colonies - I'd spread them about a bit, where you think they'll be safe from too much cutting ! 
The cocoons are quite high up the twigs, so may well get destroyed by even quite light trimming in the winter.
lovely caterpillars - almost completely grown btw so they won't be "stripping your bushes"
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