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Post by Cherry on Jul 11, 2014 21:07:07 GMT
I saw one of these today. It was easy to spot because it has orange and black stripes. Quite pretty. If a bird picks it up, it would soon drop it because it would taste very nasty. The warning is in the orange and black stripes.
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Post by sweetpea on Jul 13, 2014 14:33:43 GMT
I saw one of these today. It was easy to spot because it has orange and black stripes. Quite pretty. If a bird picks it up, it would soon drop it because it would taste very nasty. The warning is in the orange and black stripes. Have you tried it then Cherry?  We tend to get quite a few of these every year in the wild garden. The adult moths are about in daylight and are a bright red with some black. the caterpillars use ragwort as a food plant so I always leave some to grow especially as we don't have any horses that might eat it. |
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Post by Cherry on Jul 13, 2014 16:26:05 GMT
I did not know that sweetpea and I always pull it out when I see it. I will leave some there in future. It was not on ragwort actually. It was a pretty leafy weed which I don't know. |
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Post by sweetpea on Jul 14, 2014 11:52:05 GMT
I did not know that sweetpea and I always pull it out when I see it. I will leave some there in future. It was not on ragwort actually. It was a pretty leafy weed which I don't know. You have weeds Jen? (Shock horror)  .............Join the club.  |
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Post by Bess on Jul 15, 2014 21:34:25 GMT
I took this photo out in the garden just the other day, and looked up to see what it was. My elderly neighbour pulled up the weed with the caterpillar on, didn't know what to do with it, and so gave it to me... When my little sister was in her 'Goth/Punk' phase she used to wear much similar clothing to this caterpillar, from what I remember!! I have only ever seen the moth once before. Very cool.  |
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Post by Cherry on Jul 16, 2014 5:51:50 GMT
What a good photo of it Bess. I went out the next day to find it to photograph it but it had left that home. |
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Post by Bess on Aug 1, 2014 22:30:57 GMT
 Not quite sure what big beastie is, some type of hawk moth - I guess I found what's been chomping on my fuschias (well this one anyway!) |
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Post by Cherry on Aug 2, 2014 5:23:24 GMT
Pretty colour, but scary prickles Bess. |
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Post by derekbrooks on Aug 2, 2014 19:59:50 GMT
Elephant hawk caterpillars do feed on fuchsias
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