Insects, bugs etc for ID please

[maggiepie]

Thank you so much, Ron.

Love the quick service in SRGC 

[Anthony Darby]

Just found this thread. Don't usually look in the cultivation problems as insects for identification usually turn up in the wildlife thread. The caterpillar is a sawfly caterpillar. The head with its black "eye" is very characteristic. Similar to this one: http://www.pbase.com/image/52453851

[annew]

I think I'd got that far, Anthony. I wondered if it was a notifiable species - If it did the same to a larch plantation as they did to my little tree it would be a serious problem.

[Anthony Darby]

I've tried to look, but they don't seem to be a fashionable group to study so you'd need an expert or a monograph with descriptions to identify it.