What Caterpillar?, Southern England, 17 Sept 12 (1 Viewer)

[phil baber]

Feeding on Blackberry leaves.
My own research came up with Yellow Tail (moth.) Not sure that's right though!
What do you all think?

Thanks for any input, in advance.:t:

 

[phil baber]

Any takers?

 

[LindaBuckell]

Im not totally sure, but it looks like it 'could' be the Vapourer moth caterpillar.

Linda

 

[Jan-Paul Charteris]

I don't think it's a vapourer much as some markings look similar, Vapourer Moth caterpillars have a pretty distinctive shape, as in the link below!

http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Wiltshire/Trowbridge/photo587979.htm

 

[Swindon Addick]

Feeding on Blackberry leaves.
My own research came up with Yellow Tail (moth.) Not sure that's right though!
What do you all think?

Thanks for any input, in advance.:t:

You may have more luck if you re-post this in the forum for butterflies and moths - there are a lot of people on there who never venture onto the "other insects" forum.

Personally, I'm just about confident that it's a moth, and that's as far as my knowledge goes!

 

[pdwinter]

There's a picture on Hants Butterfly Sightings of a Knot Grass larva which looks very much like this.