Hi there
While weeding the front area of our garden this afternoon, we came across this chrysalis
I have placed a 2p coin to show the size.
Another angle
Thank you in advance
Regards
Kathy and Dave
Just found the link below and it looks like the same pupae as you have found and it belongs to the Angle Shade Moth hope this helps
http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?bf=2306
Sue
Brown Pointed Larva Moth Pupa.
Regards Buzzard
Hi Kathy. I will leave the experts to fight it out over the I.D, but just for interest, when we were growing up we used to call them leatherjackets. Just thought i would share this useless info with you.
Leather Jacket is the Cranefly Larvae, quite a bit different in my experience :-)
Thank you everyone for your replies on here
Just a contast of answers here
So.... it is a Cranefly.... Buzzard. hmmmm. It was a large Larve for that me thinks but who am I know as others have spent time working out the species here
Well done to all {big smile}
I found this picture of crane fly larvea as buzzard says totally different to your Blackbird.
Every day and I am sure others learn something new every day due to the knowledge of others. My hubby thinks I have learned a lot since I came on here:)
Buzzard said:Leather Jacket is the Cranefly Larvae
True - but "leather jacket" is also used in different parts of the world to describe a number of different grubs / larvae / pupae. So you are both right!
BB
This is a moth pupa but as for identifying it to species level it's a dificult call as many of our moth species have similar pupae. Angle shades is definitely one to consider and you can look through the range of other species on the link here to the UK Lepidoptera website.
Edit: the crane fly larvae do look different but this is a pupa and some crane fly pupa do look quite similar to moth pupa. Personally i think its a moth pupa but i'm sure we have some entomologists out there that can offer some pearls of wisdom on how to distinguish crane fly pupae from moth pupae!!!
That's Moth Pupa. We encountered this in our biology class as part of experiment.
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