Plant/weed ID

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,123

  March 2014

  It looks like a pupa of the beautiful Angle Shades moth 

  http://www.wildlifetrusts.org/species/angle-shades

   

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,441

  March 2014

  Is that what it is. I realised as soon as I posted that it wasn't the small tortoiseshell

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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• Dovefromabove Posts: 88,123

  March 2014

  We get a lot of them in our garden - I noticed one of the chrysalids in the mini-greenhouse this morning.  I left it where I found it to pupate 

  
  Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
  
  
  
  
  
  

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• nutcutlet Posts: 27,441

  March 2014

  I don't think I shall be starting a killing spree either

  
  
  In the sticks near Peterborough

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