Need your help please

[black mirror]

My son has just came in with the biggest caterpillar i have ever seen.. about 5 inches long with a thorn on its head.. i am in UK

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/blackmirror111/Picture1.jpg

I cant seem to find it on the internet.. any ideas please

[renegade600]

forget about the name, just throw it on the barbee with a little bbq sauce and enjoy. :rotflmao:

[black mirror]

forget about the name, just throw it on the barbee with a little bbq sauce and enjoy. :rotflmao:

It was really strange and jumped.. gave me a shock:D

[Rainbow32]

Looks like one of those "horny" caterpillars to me.

[zipulrich]

Tobacco hornworm.

[Little Wing]

wow, i though tomato worm. Wrong i know. WOW, never seen one of those..

[Rainbow32]

Tobacco hornworm.
I didn't know you grew your own tobacco BM. What else is in your garden????

[Vercades]

Tobacco hornworm.
Yeah, I used to squeeze thier heads off when I stripped tobacco. Wouldn't recommend doing it without gloves. :rotflmao:

[black mirror]

thanks but i dont think the UK climate is warm enough to grow Tobacco.. other wise Mr BM would have a garden full

[Vercades]

If there's one of those around you might find an inch worm if you look hard enough those are real neat critters.

[MadMedic]

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/field/hornworm.htm

[MadMedic]

http://muextension.missouri.edu/explore/wildthing/tobaccotomatohornworm.htm

Looks like the one in the second picture on this link.

[black mirror]

http://creatures.ifas.ufl.edu/field/hornworm.htm

That is not it.. but thanks:D

[MadMedic]

Check the one right before your last post. I edited it and changed the link. It looks like the one in your picture.

[black mirror]

Yes that does look like it.....

[dudeking]

It does like like it (in madmedic's link), its huge!!!

[black mirror]

Tobacco hornworm.

Thanks i am trying to find out if we have them in UK

[black mirror]

It does like like it (in madmedic's link), its huge!!!

the size of a small snake:rotflmao:

[dudeking]

Thanks i am trying to find out if we have them in UK
Well I think we do now :rotflmao:

Looks like somthing you would get in europe:happy:

[black mirror]

Well I think we do now :rotflmao:

Looks like somthing you would get in europe:happy:

I have heard of global warming but think of the holes it would leave in my plants:rotflmao:

[bAdWaYz]

To be 100% sure of what it is you should run hijackthis on it. Silent Runners may show you some good info as well. Most of the time all you will find is moth.exe and thats fine but if you run into Lepidoptera.dll you should seek help with it. Keep in mind that these things tend to be Polymorphic so use care when viewing it.

[dudeking]

I'm not going to laugh.....................lol

[dudeking]

To be 100% sure of what it is you should run hijackthis on it. Silent Runners may show you some good info as well. Most of the time all you will find is moth.exe and thats fine but if you run into Lepidoptera.dll you should seek help with it. Keep in mind that these things tend to be Polymorphic so use care when viewing it.
But I will laugh at that.........:rotflmao:

[black mirror]

To be 100% sure of what it is you should run hijackthis on it. Silent Runners may show you some good info as well. Most of the time all you will find is moth.exe and thats fine but if you run into Lepidoptera.dll you should seek help with it. Keep in mind that these things tend to be Polymorphic so use care when viewing it.

You do have a sesnse of humour after all Badwayz.. brilliant:rotflmao:

[PurestLight]

Ive just spent ages browsing this site: http://www.whatsthatbug.com/index.html

Very interesting it was too. All the descriptions Ive read of the Tobacco Hornworm describe it as having white stripes . Has yours BM?

[dammit]

My son has just came in with the biggest caterpillar i have ever seen.. about 5 inches long with a thorn on its head.. i am in UK

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l183/blackmirror111/Picture1.jpg

I cant seem to find it on the internet.. any ideas please

Good gawd... what spell did you invoke to create that?

[black mirror]

Be afraid be very afraid Dammit that was one of my sons
he didnt wash up when i asked him to

[AMH]

that looks like one similar i found lieing in my driveway last year (United States)... they are usually called the "devil caterpillar"

the one i found was exactly the same but had these big spikes coming out from all over its body...but it is really a big baby and it is harmless

http://www.shawnolson.net/a/1170/

maybe yours is a baby devil :happy:

[black mirror]

that looks like one similar i found lieing in my driveway last year (United States)... they are usually called the "devil caterpillar"

the one i found was exactly the same but had these big spikes coming out from all over its body...but it is really a big baby and it is harmless

http://www.shawnolson.net/a/1170/

maybe yours is a baby devil :happy:


OMG that is hideous.. if i was a bird i would think twice about trying to eat that. I am in uk and i have never ever seen a caterpillar that big

[AMH]

OMG that is hideous.. if i was a bird i would think twice about trying to eat that. I am in uk and i have never ever seen a caterpillar that big

haha i know, i wasnt sure whether or not i should be handling it when i first found it... my dog wouldnt even go near it

you probably have a differnt variation of this ugly little worm over there in your garden.......

...or maybe yours is actually a man eating machine?

[black mirror]

haha i know, i wasnt sure whether or not i should be handling it when i first found it... my dog wouldnt even go near it

you probably have a differnt variation of this ugly little worm over there in your garden.......

...or maybe yours is actually a man eating machine?


I cant imagine what would come out of its cocoon.. a monster moth.. OMG MOTHMAN:rotflmao:

[AMH]

I cant imagine what would come out of its cocoon.. a monster moth.. OMG MOTHMAN:rotflmao:


or dammit :cool:

[black mirror]

or dammit :cool:

No worries there it was far too pretty :rotflmao:

[black mirror]

Ive just spent ages browsing this site: http://www.whatsthatbug.com/index.html

Very interesting it was too. All the descriptions Ive read of the Tobacco Hornworm describe it as having white stripes . Has yours BM?

Not from where i was sitting:rotflmao: across the room

[AMH]

No worries there it was far too pretty :rotflmao:


haha, true true

[black mirror]

Shh keep it to yourself.. rumour has it Dammit came from one of these (http://shop.com.edgesuite.net/ccimg.catalogcity.com/210000/214800/214881/Products/9816576.jpg):rotflmao:

[DarkDwarf]

It's a new king of hotdog!!:D

[black mirror]

It's a new king of hotdog!!:D

I am no nearer to identifying it so i have sent the photo to the BBC.. ( i just want to get on the television ):D

[DarkDwarf]

Hehehehe...

[black mirror]

Hehehehe...

you are so familiar...... thatlaugh... that bunny :D

[Snurfen]

I used to have one of those on pokemon gold on the N64.

The trainers look like REEF to me.

[black mirror]

I used to have one of those on pokemon gold on the N64.

The trainers look like REEF to me.

They are not my feet and i think they are DC's i believe or Etnies skateboarding shoes

[dudeking]

They are not my feet and i think they are DC's i believe or Etnies skateboarding shoes
You want to get a good pair of emericas:cool:

[black mirror]

[QUOTE=dudeking;727849]You want to get a good pair of emericas:cool:[/QUOTE
I dont wear them Dudeking..... :rotflmao:

[dudeking]

[quote=dudeking;727849]You want to get a good pair of emericas:cool:[/QUOTE
I dont wear them Dudeking..... :rotflmao:
...and why not?

[black mirror]

[quote=black mirror;727942]
...and why not?

My hooves wont fit in them:rotflmao:

[dudeking]

lmao

[Metr01973]

You found that in the UK? blimey! You haven't killed it have you? If you still have it, find a fish tank (without water, lol) and put it in there and see what kind of butterfly/moth it turns into. I've never seen anything like that in the UK, mind you we did have a really hot summer this year and the autumn is the hottest since records began in the 1600's, so maybe it's here because of the weather.

[black mirror]

You found that in the UK? blimey! You haven't killed it have you? If you still have it, find a fish tank (without water, lol) and put it in there and see what kind of butterfly/moth it turns into. I've never seen anything like that in the UK, mind you we did have a really hot summer this year and the autumn is the hottest since records began in the 1600's, so maybe it's here because of the weather.


Too late it has been released. I have never seen anything like it either.. must have came from outer space.. hope there are not more of them:D

[Metr01973]

Too late it has been released. I have never seen anything like it either.. must have came from outer space.. hope there are not more of them:D

:D I've never seen anything like it. It's the horn on the head that makes it look dangerous. Perhaps it did come form Mars, lol.