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Giant (large white) caterpillars?

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Carl
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Giant (large white) caterpillars?

On a walk a few weeks ago, i came across this like sandy patch of land and it had some big hole dug into it, it`s a vertical bit of soil btw so like there`s bracken on top.Anyways whilst just looking at the soil, i noticed this dead caterpillar was pretty fat, and looked like a large white, and then in one of the wholes there`s was the biggest caterpillar i`ve ever seen, it look almost identicle to a large white, and positive it is, and it was trying to climb up the soil but kept falling down, anyways i saw another one which at first looked dead i even touch it with a twig and it didn`t budge, so i went back to the alive one, looked back and the "dead" one was walking was pretty freaking Icon_lol i was like "wait....... ain`t you supposed to be dead":rolleyes:.
So can anyone tell me any info on them, as the about the thickness of my little finger.

cheers

Carl

Btw one of them gave me the pleasure of watching them do a no 2 rofl

If my spelling sucks it`s because i type too quick and then hit post before checking.
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20-09-2009 09:26 PM