By Stevem
United Kingdom 
i have just found a really strange looling thing eatingthe leaves off a small potted ornamental ivy plant.
It is about 2 inches long and looks like one of the twiggy stems, but it is 'clamped' onto a real stem at one end and its mouth is at the other chomping away with what looks like 2 mandibles of a darker brown.
It also seems to attach its mouth on with very fine silk type threads.
Does anyone have any idea what it is?
16 May, 2011
Answers
it must be quit tuff to eat ivy but moon-growe is right . it looks like a twig to hide itself prom predetors . if it bothers you pull it of and tread on it and look for more .
16 May, 2011
I'm so impressed with the ability to disguise themselves I tend to leave them be NP...
16 May, 2011
me to bamboo my garden is nature friendly it all facinates me . i lovewatching spiders and feeding them blue bottles lol . boys obviously dont grow up lol .
16 May, 2011
I love that word - a looling thing! Doesn't it just describe a looping caterpillar exactly!
16 May, 2011
i thaught it was a spelling mistake steragram lol .
17 May, 2011
Me too...
17 May, 2011
lolive never herd of it so its not a well known scotish or english saying then lol x .
17 May, 2011
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