Caterpillar ID

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Caterpillar ID

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Hi all

Just got back from holidays and found these guys munching away on an oak. Does anybody know what they are?
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Don't know name but they look like what I get often - spray a bit of Dipel or Pyrethrum. Or just squish them all - they not stinging are they?
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they are called "looper worms"

Dipel will get rid of them as will cutting them in half with scissors :palm:
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Thanks for that.
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they are called "Looper Worms" and are the larve of a Moth.
discussed here a few years ago
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Dipel is the produce to control them if you need or just pick them off. Cutting them in 1/2 works too :-)

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kcpoole wrote:they are called "Looper Worms" and are the larve of a Moth.
discussed here a few years ago
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4317#p48460

Dipel is the produce to control them if you need or just pick them off. Cutting them in 1/2 works too :-)

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bonsaibuddyman wrote:
kcpoole wrote:they are called "Looper Worms" and are the larve of a Moth.
discussed here a few years ago
viewtopic.php?f=19&t=4317#p48460

Dipel is the produce to control them if you need or just pick them off. Cutting them in 1/2 works too :-)

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Bugger I posted in the wrong thread and wondered why I could not find it :lol: :palm:
Must be getting old :-)

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:lol: the irony....okay... I was looking way far into this.... I assumed this was in reference to the movie 'looper', whereby bruce willis from the future goes back in time to repeat the same events blah blah blah. I assumed it was a cryptic sense of humour. :P
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