Caterpillar help please.light green,smooth,dark line down back,white face.any one tell me what it is?

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Caterpillar help please.light green,smooth,dark line down back,white face.any one tell me what it is?

Answer 1

catepillar is a worm which is green in colour

Answer 2

Sounds like a cabbage white

Answer 3

Take the caterpillar together with some of the foliage from it's host plant, in a small box to the Natural History Museum here in London - or similar where you live.

This next link gets you lots of pictures of caterpillars. . . .

http://images.google.co.uk/images?source...

Caterpillars | Natural History MuseumCaterpillars include the caterpillars of butterflies and moths. ... Accessibility · Site map · Terms of use; © The Natural History Museum, London 2008. ...

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/...

Theres a big caterpillar 'event' taking place at the Natural History Museum this August - maybe you should enter your beast in the lists. . . .

Natural History Museum - what's on in London Natural History Museum, to 17 August 2008 10:00 - 16:00 Shrink down into the undergrowth and enter the interactive maze. Experience life as a caterpillar ...

http://www.londonkidz.co.uk/?keyid=4

If none of the above suits, try keeping the caterpillar and feed it from the foliage of it's host plant.  

Rearing caterpillars - Amateur Entomologists' Society (AES)If you found your caterpillar outside your house then you can keep your cage outside however you must be very careful that it will not blow over in the wind ...

http://www.amentsoc.org/insects/careshee...

. . . .and for the carnivors, this. . . .

Edible Caterpillars in Bas CongoChildren are the main caterpillar collectors, though most people, while walking in the bush, keep a constant watch for them. ...

http://www.bgci.org/cultivate/article/02...

Answer 4

Not sure but, if it were a Massey Fergusson or John Deere I could probably get you a model number.

Answer 5

not for certain but probably a "cabbage white butterfly" they are pretty common white wings with a black vein

Answer 6

If its carrying an AK47 stay well away from it.

Answer 7

Its the caterpillar of the privet moth.