Tuesday, 20 September 2011

very weird but rather lovely too

My folks found one of these in their back garden, it's about 5 inches long


It's an elephant hawk caterpillar

As scary and uuughhh as it looks it turns into this...

A beautiful pink and olive moth

Mum got a little bit scared (oh yes you did) and Dad had to take it to a nearby field to let it go. It is so big and hungry it can demolish your garden in days (she said exaggerating a tad). They are also a protected bug Dad tells me!

Wow, wish nice things would come into my back yard.




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