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I've just met a wonderful caterpillar:
Vapourer Moth (Orgyia antiqua)
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/P6/P66562.php
I've never seen one before, its very exotic looking but alas is quite common.
It was munching on a young Cornus shrub– which would be about normal.
I then found a report from Scotland that there have been small "outbreaks" of these babies that have effectively stripped Sitka Spruce plantations (Forestry/Oxford Journals)
Should I or we be worried here in SE London?
J
"An outbreak of Vapourer Moth (Orgyiaantiqua L.: Lepidoptera Lymantridae) on Sitka...
PINDER and HAYES Forestry.1986; 59: 97-106 "
I've just met a wonderful caterpillar:
Vapourer Moth (Orgyia antiqua)
http://www.bioimages.org.uk/html/P6/P66562.php
I've never seen one before, its very exotic looking but alas is quite common.
It was munching on a young Cornus shrub– which would be about normal.
I then found a report from Scotland that there have been small "outbreaks" of these babies that have effectively stripped Sitka Spruce plantations (Forestry/Oxford Journals)
Should I or we be worried here in SE London?
J
"An outbreak of Vapourer Moth (Orgyiaantiqua L.: Lepidoptera Lymantridae) on Sitka...
PINDER and HAYES Forestry.1986; 59: 97-106 "
