This week my mum is staying at my brother's house, dog sitting while he's on holiday. Today she popped home with a 'present' for me...an enormous caterpillar that she's found on the path at my brother's house and rescued because he 'looked cold', and probably so the dogs don't eat him. I've done a bit of research on him, and he's an Elephant Hawk Moth Caterpillar, he likes to eat fuchsia and willow herb. Currently he has lettuce and a pink flower to eat, I shall have to go on a fuchsia hunt under cover of darkness later! He would like a layer of soil and leaves to pupate in, he'll make a cocoon any time now, then he needs to hang out somewhere cool over winter, like the shed, then in spring he'll turn into a beautiful butterfly..well, moth! I have called him Fredrick.
This is what Fred will turn into one day!
Whoa! Hi Fred! :)
ReplyDeleteIt's strange how so little – and in some cases awful – creatures become wonderful! Nature is surprising everytime!
Wow - that's a big caterpillar!
ReplyDeleteGood luck with him.
Kay :)