Nature in the garden

Super photos ...

Wow, never even heard of that one - isn't it fantastic?
How does a reference book on caterpillars work? is there something akin to a plant key to narrow them down?

I love that photo of the caterpillar attaching itself and preparing to pupate. :)

Fascinating pictures, such clear close-ups.

Brilliant blog and moths polinate more than bees I ve read.

Thank you for your comments everyone. Steragram, I do have a couple of wildlife books, but found the information on the net. I do love learning about and observing all the various insects, bees, butterflies, birds and all wildlife in general.

Thanks Numbersfarm.Good old Net,what did we do without it? Where I used to work we had a book called Caterpillars of British Moths. Nobody ever borrowed it - perhaps i should have given it a new home...

Some lovely photos, last year I rehomed some caterpillars as they where all over one of my plants and nearly eat it to the groung. There where about 10 on this little plant so put them in the hedgerow. Don't know enough about them so hope yours are more garden friendly. :-)

The Mullien Moth caterpillars would devastate my Verbascum chaixii each year, so when I spot them I pick them off. I deliberately cut off the lower leaves of the plant as they overhang the grass, cut out the light and cause it to die, so the prunings and the caterpillars get relocated elsewhere.

Jen if you relocate caterpillars out of the goodness of your hard you might like to know that they are particular about their food plants so in the hedge they may well starve to death instead of being squashed in the garden. Its a hard life when you're little....