Fantastic, the dead plant will be Garlic Mustard. We have quite a bit in a wooded area of our garden and do get Orange Tip in the spring but despite looking I'm yet to find any chrysalis - well done. Just googled Jack by the Hedge and it's the same thing. I'm definitely using your name in future Dove that's a brilliant one I hadn't heard before.
Yep the catepillar was on garlic mustard, never heard it called jack by the hedge, we used to call it hedge garlic. I’m not native to Suffolk though. Now whippets... that’s more my area
Botanical name for garlic mustard, Jack by the Hedge, etc. : Alliaria petiolata. IMHO so much easier to call plants by their botanical name so everybody knows what we are talking about (including speakers of other languages).
Before anyone jumps in to call me a pedant I do acknowledge that common names have a charm of their own. The Wikipedia article lists quite a few: garlic root, hedge garlic, sauce-alone, skyut, Jack-in-the-bush, penny hedge and poor man's mustard.
It's been a good year for them. They're particularly keen on the lady's smock (Cardamine pratensis) around here as we don't have any Jack by the Hedge that I've been able to find.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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Just googled Jack by the Hedge and it's the same thing. I'm definitely using your name in future Dove that's a brilliant one I hadn't heard before.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.