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bugshaw at 06:27pm on 16/08/2009
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pseudomonas and I met up for tea, but ended up in Christs Pieces lying on the grass (it had been a longer walk than I could manage).After a while of talking, he jumped up with a start, brushing at his clothes - a caterpillar had crawled up and attached itself. It was a monster, about the size of my thumb, bloated and ready to pupate (on P's trousers), its mouthparts so strong and its body so muscular I had a job to remove it. With spots and pink stripes along its body and a blue spike at one end, we wondered if it was a unicorn caterpillar - but it is Macroglossum stellatarum, the Hummingbird Hawk-moth. It was a fabulous beast, once safely returned to the grass - the horn was bright and prominent, and the mouthparts like those of a baby sandworm as it searched for a place to adhere. Its rear feet were huge and sucky.
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(But ours was pinker and bluer)
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Until I googled for Christ's Pieces I thought that was a euphemism for "very tired"!
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If he had enough pairs of trousers, it might have been cool to let it pupate in his home, but it's probably better of where it is.
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