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  1. Brush

    Brush Well-Known Member

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    Just found this in the garden, it's about 2.5 inches long and 0.5 inch thick. Never seen owt like it before, some sort of moth caterpillar?
     
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    I'm sorry mate, my inner gnome had a little poo in your garden.
     
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    It’s a Gypsy moth caterpillar
     
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    We have one in our garden that keeps travelling from one flower bed to the other over the grass.
     
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    The fact that caterpillar turns into an elephant hawk moth is mind boggling! Nature is amazing
     
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    Used to be loads of em when I was a kid, now they seem a bit of a rarity
     
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    It truly is mate, I’m always fascinated how pond life can turn into humans
     
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    Or humans back into pond life
     
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