[EVIE]

help please i have small green grub,it is leaf shaped and moves like a caterpillar but it is flat,  like thing eating my plants

[Ruby Red]

You dont mean a shield bug do you? Though they arent like a grub

[fish]

green shield bug?

[DD.]

Won't be a green shield bug, they suck sap & cause no noticeable damage.

[gobs]

Remember not to believe anything Fish says.

Have you a photo, would help big ones, or not....

[EVIE]

I have posted a pic of this thing in the photo section please someone look at it

[gobs]

I have posted a pic of this thing in the photo section please someone look at it

I don't really know where you mean, your gallery being empty, is it in the photo competition?

Why can't you put it on here instead of all peeps going around this like myself, won't get many replies, exasperating.  

[DD.]

Could be the immature nymph of the Green Shield Bug, which the RHS says are more rounded..

http://www.rhs.org.uk/Advice/profiles0900/green_shield_bug.asp

Nevertheless, they don't cause leaf damage to the plant, (allegedly), are you sure this is the culprit?

Must admit I've never seen anything similar to this - get plenty of the Green Shield Bugs on the raspeberries though!

[EVIE]

its a small copper caterpillar, small copper butterfly, normally eats dock, so what it is doing on my garlic i dont know. emailed an expert on pests last night,

dont know how to put pic onto this  bit of the site, help

[gobs]

On garlic? :shock:  Garlic is used to repel things. :?

I only know of a few grubs that eat garlic, leek moth, eelworm, etc, none of which look like that of course. That looks almost like a slug moth.

Whatever it is and however it got there, not too sure the damage is caused by this fellow, how many have you got?

What does the damage look like?

[DD.]

its a small copper caterpillar, small copper butterfly, normally eats dock, so what it is doing on my garlic i dont know. emailed an expert on pests last night,

dont know how to put pic onto this  bit of the site, help

Have a look under the help topics in the Welcome forum - "Posting pictures in a thread".

Trust I located the correct piccie yesterday!

[DD.]

Read all about it!

http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/invertebrates_terrestrial_and_freshwater/Lycaena_phlaeus/ARK016858.html

[Vitoria plum]

its a small copper caterpillar, small copper butterfly, normally eats dock, so what it is doing on my garlic i dont know. emailed an expert on pests last night,

dont know how to put pic onto this  bit of the site, help

Have a look under the help topics in the Welcome forum - "Posting pictures in a thread".

Trust I located the correct piccie yesterday!

yes you did put the correct pic on many thanks

[Vitoria plum]

hi my dear friend evie found the grub to be a small copper butterfly, and apparently lucky to have it so the pest expert said, he also said they like to live on dock,]

[Vitoria plum]

http://www.chat.allotment-garden.org/album_pic.php?pic_id=1070