{"id":8928,"date":"2024-09-02T14:57:16","date_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:57:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8928"},"modified":"2024-09-02T14:57:17","modified_gmt":"2024-09-02T14:57:17","slug":"poplar-hawk-moth-caterpillar-laothoe-populi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/?p=8928","title":{"rendered":"Poplar Hawk-Moth Caterpillar (Laothoe populi)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Poplar Hawk-Moth Caterpillar (Laothoe populi) that I wrote about in a previous post has grown quite large – I am surprised though that the birds have yet to find it – it is over 5cm (2″) long. Here is another selection of photographs of this insect feeding on the leaves of a small apple tree in our garden:<\/p>\n\n\n

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Poplar hawk-moth caterpillar feeding on an apple leaf. Full length view in portrait mode<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n
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Poplar hawk-moth caterpillar trying to feed on an apple leaf stem<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Poplar hawk-moth caterpillar trying to feed on an apple leaf bud<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A tiny mite on the body of the caterpillar. This is an enlargement from the previous photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A close-up of the head showing 3 tiny eyes on the side of the head<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Poplar hawk-moth caterpillar in its defensive mode – it was startled when I tried to measure it!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The Poplar hawk-moth caterpillar is stretching out to find another place to go to<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I find this very fascinating – you don’t need to go to the African plains to see interesting wildlife!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Poplar Hawk-Moth Caterpillar (Laothoe populi) that I wrote about in a previous post has grown quite large – I am surprised though that the birds have yet to find it – it is over 5cm (2″) long. Here is another selection of photographs of this insect feeding on the leaves of a small apple … Continue reading “Poplar Hawk-Moth Caterpillar (Laothoe populi)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,52,93,22,24,94,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-close-up","category-environment","category-garden","category-insects","category-macro","category-nature","category-staffordshire","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8928"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8937,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8928\/revisions\/8937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pmstudios.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}