Caterpillar Identification Help please? :)

Lizbetty

Good afternoon

We recently bought some silver birch trees, the leaves are pretty holey and eaten but they are otherwise healthy trees (also on offer ) 

This morning we found this gang of acrobatic caterpillars having their breakfast. We'd love to know what they are, google search is leaning towards sawfly larvae/caterpillars but not quite as they seem to have black spots whereas these have orange ones? 



Would love to know what we're dealing with! 

Many thanks,

Lucy

theoretica

Sawfly by the number of legs https://www.natureblog.org/whats-the-difference/

Lizbetty

theoretica said:

Sawfly by the number of legs https://www.natureblog.org/whats-the-difference/

Ah brilliant! Thank you. Luckily the hens like them which is good news 😃

Lucy