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Privet Hawkmoth caterpillar

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  • Steve 309Steve 309 Posts: 2,753

    I used to go off on my bike and come home when I was hungry - aged 10 or so - and walked half a mile to school on my own from 7.  Tell that to the kids today...

    Great pics of the caterpillar, btw image

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,134
    Steve 309 wrote (see)

    I used to go off on my bike and come home when I was hungry - aged 10 or so - and walked half a mile to school on my own from 7.  Tell that to the kids today...

    Great pics of the caterpillar, btw image

    Hear! Hear! image


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





  • Fishy65Fishy65 Posts: 2,276

    When ah wut lad,we used ta live int' corridor. We were that poor by 'eck. When ah got 'ome fromt school,if ah wut lucky ah git damn good thrashin'. I...them were the days image

  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,134

    Ah but, I'm going backwards Phillippa - been going backwards for ages image


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





  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,134

    Well.............. it's nice that someone's got a reason to have a party image


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





  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    Just emerged and expanding its wings

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    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Fishy65Fishy65 Posts: 2,276

    Those are incredible pictures nut!! Are they your own? I would just love to see that happening...image

  • BamboogieBamboogie Posts: 239

    Woah! That's a stunning moth Nut. Which one is it?, you don't breed them do you? Just after watching silence of the lambs, I'm a bit weary of moth breeders!image

  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,444

    We were very lucky Fishy, it had pupated in the soil and we were right there when it emerged. It took a few minutes to work out what we were looking at.



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Fishy65Fishy65 Posts: 2,276

    That was a Death's Head Hawkmoth in Silence of the Lambs Bamboogie image

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