{"id":25469,"date":"2018-06-11T06:17:34","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T06:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=25469"},"modified":"2018-06-11T06:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T06:17:34","slug":"i-misidentified-the-caterpillar-in-our-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.carolschickens.com\/blog\/?p=25469","title":{"rendered":"I misidentified the caterpillar in our garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently did a post about an unusual caterpillar in our garden. I put a description into google and came up with Eastern black swallowtail. The caterpillar looked very similar and this was the only result that came up so I took it that this was what it was.<\/p>\n

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Caterpillar<\/p><\/div>\n

In the comments Jenny said that she had had it in her garden last year and that it was a mullein moth caterpillar. I then googled mullein moth and sure enough she was right. Thank you Jen!<\/p>\n

I couldn’t look at them side by side so I sketched the pattern of the black dots then went back to my photo. Sure enough it was a match. The black dots on the Eastern black swallowtail are in neat pairs whereas these black dots are more frequent.<\/p>\n

This makes much more sense, although less exciting, as it says that the caterpillars are found in southern England in May and June and feed on, among other things, verbascum.<\/p>\n

The moth has light and dark shades of brown that blend into woody stems.<\/p>\n

So, not such an amazing visitor after all, although it is the first time we have seen one. I felt that I must post again as I don’t want to give out incorrect information.<\/p>\n

I would like to credit this post to Jen as I wouldn’t have known of my mistake without her comment. Once again, thank you Jen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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