Can anyone identify this insect/bug I have in my shop?

Question

In the sunlight it has a bright green body with little yellow dots and a antennae - I may have damaged a second one by accident. In the shade it seems to dulls in colour. It has no legs, wings, or other appendages. It is about 2 inches longand about as thick as a cocktail sausage! I dropped something quite close to it a it almost jumped before curling itself up in a foetal postion. Any ideas

Answer 1

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Answer 2

definitely a caterpillar

Answer 3

Since, you don't have a photo of it.

It would be impossible to answer your question.

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Answer 4

Learn to ID them, here -

http://bugguide.net/node/view/15740

http://greennature.com/article1899.html

http://www.einsteins-emporium.com/life/a...

http://www.whatsthatbug.com/

http://www.insectimages.org/

Answer 5

sounds like some sort of larvae?

(because it has no feet, wings etc.)

sorry i cant help you more.

Answer 6

It sounds like a moth larva (caterpillar)

The most common one I get asked about is the Elephant Hawk Moth caterpillar http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=1754 - and it does sound rather like your description.  In its later instars (stages of being a caterpillar) it turns brown, before pupating to metamorphose into a large moth http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=60

If it is a hawkmoth caterpillar, that's not an antenna but a spur on it's hind end.  The head is the "thinner" end.

Their legs are tiny and are at the front of the body (they have little stumpy false legs behind these).  

When still in the "green" form they are smaller - once they reach the final instar they can be the size of a man's index finger

If it is a E-HM caterpillar, you could do worse than put it outside on some willowherb or bedstraw - or failing that on some garden fuchias, which they will gladly munch much to the owner's dismay!

It'll spend the winter as a pupa (like a chrysalis) before emerging sometime next May - July to copulate and continue the life cycle.

The caterpillars aren't irritating like some hairy (urticating) caterpillars so you can pick it up safely

Answer 7

Its a bugging/camera type device planted by the CIA -- if you see any stamp on them

Answer 8

I know exactly what you mean but I can't remember what they are called. But they are totally harmless. If you can get a leaf and scoop it up you could put it outside by some plants in the shade.

Answer 9

its a jelly mould of ya blokes man hood