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It’s over 10 cm long and 1 cm diameter. The pointy end is the head. Three pairs of legs at the front; maybe more further down but I don’t know. I think it came from a hole in the ground.
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What Grub Is That?
31 Saturday Dec 2011
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It’s over 10 cm long and 1 cm diameter. The pointy end is the head. Three pairs of legs at the front; maybe more further down but I don’t know. I think it came from a hole in the ground.
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How ’bout that for a dot painting, Voice!
In my own garden first thing in the morning two days ago I saw a type of moth that is large with great extended furry feelers.. and a great appearance of an ‘eye’ on its back, in about the position a head might be if the thing was a reasonable size. It seemed to be struggling up out of the grass, attempting to crawl up a wall as if trying to launch itself, to get airborne. It was no surprise later in the day I found its remains upended and half eaten out as if another insect or ants had made a great feast of it. A sort of turkey among moths, a festive season dine-out for its diners.
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I’m glad you have a garden ‘shoe, you are a nature type person I venture humbly to suggest.
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I’m trying to learn Voice I as humbly refer back. I hope I can learn more than anything.
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A very hungry caterpillar
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…maybe just hungover, Hung.
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Me?
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…no, no, not talking about YOU, this article is about caterpillars…
There were lots of half empty beer and wine bottles in the park this morning…the caterpillars get thirsty too 🙂
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Yes I worked last night, coming home this morning at 7.30am was a bit of an eye opener. Anyway happy new year to you and yours, I’m really well at the moment and positive about the future, it feels great Helvi
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The big pink one looks like a ruler. Ducks often come disguised as rulers. Step on it, see if it quacks.
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When you say it looks like a ruler, do you mean straight and 12 inches long? That WOULD be a big one. I would expect a high-pitched scream to be the more likely result of stepping on it though.
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I note the gov.nsw ?
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Yes, I didn’t notice that until I saw the photo. I’m guessing it’s from my kids’ school days, or one of those stalls the the RFS has at council fetes, or something like that.
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Well pluck a duck! It’s a coequosa triangularis, to be sure, to be sure. Doubleheaded Hawk Moth caterpillar.
I knew we could get it if we put our heads together.
You can’t see how huge the thing is; wider than my thumb. I suppose that should have made me think Hawk Moth from the get-go, due to prior contact with an almost as huge Impatiens Hawk Moth caterpillar. The Hawk Moth part seemed likely from various similar images on the web and the troubling lack of a horn at the back end, which looks as if it should be the head, turns out to be the clincher as to species.
http://www.qm.qld.gov.au/Find+out+about/Animals+of+Queensland/Insects/Butterflies+and+moths/Common+species/Hawk+Moths.
I found it at the base of a banksia serrata not far from a hole which is one of several with a similar diameter scattered about my garden, and was kind of hoping it might have come from the hole. But having read about it, it was probably on its way in to the ground to pupate, not out. Now I’m hoping those are cicada holes, but I suspect some are actually spider holes. No webs, so they’re nothing too scary anyway.
Now I know what’s been chewing the banksia serrata leaves. Or as one web site put it, “banksia serrata is a larval food plant for Double-headed Hawkmoth (Coequosa triangularis) butterflies”.
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They’re gorgeous, with Melba toast and hot chocolate 🙂
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As a side-effect of the search I discovered that a beautiful insect I noticed flying about a few weeks ago was a Bee Hawk Moth.
http://www.ozanimals.com/Insect/Bee-Hawk-Moth/Cephonodes/kingii.html
Seems it’s sometimes called Gardenia Bee Hawk Moth. Wonder why. Oh. Excuse me, just popping out to examine my gardenias. If I find any caterpillars they are toast.
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Looks pretty horrible, I would have stepped on it instead of measuring it 🙂
We had a ‘weird’ looking mushroom popping up in our garden overnight; it wasn’t there the night before…it was there the first thing in the morning.
According to Gerard it looked like an erect penis, I did not study it , i simply and decisively kicked it to pieces….
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I hope you agree with Gerard; good sign if he can remember what an erect penis looks like. 🙂
Was prepared to sentence it to death pending identification, but have let it go as I think the banksias are advanced enough to cope and it’ll probably provide food for some bird. As well I don’t mind a little natural pruning of that row of little trees on my nature strip.
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…and my obvious comeback ought to be: xx xxx? No, not really, just kidding 🙂 This is not really my style.
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it’s a duck.
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…it’s yack
and now it’s stuck
in my Croc.
What a bummer
the start of summer!
It’s been a pain,
all too much rain.
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Dunno, but il will turn into a butterfly or Moth I suspect. Salamat Tahun Buru, Voice.
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Well, from the description I would pick Craig Thomson. However it could be any of these.
..http://www.pbase.com/tmurray74/moth_caterpillars
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That is a stunning collection.
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It’s the larvae of the Paddy O’Reilly Moth – famous for eating out the crutches of low-flying ducks. It comes out every St Patrick’s Day, to be sure to be sure. The Irish use them to flavour Ballantyne’s Whiskey – and the careless imbiber of such a draught is often seen to have one crawling out of a nostril – since the whiskey does not kill an O’Reilly, it merely makes the beast stronger.
This opens up the opportunity for all the said drinker’s friends to make jokes about how lively Paddy’s snot is today.
All the best for the New Year, Voixey.
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Bit late for St Pat’s isn’t it Emms?
Or has it just managed to work its way up Paddy’s nostrils, swimming upcurrent all the while, like a salmon going home?
Is the bug called Ulysses?
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Many thanks for your Joyceful response, ‘Mou 🙂
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