Wednesday 7 August 2024

Hobby & Privet Moth larvae in the garden again

On Sunday 4th August a fine Hobby flew west over the back of the garden and above the roof of the new house at the back of us and west towards Parkhill Hotel at 8pm. On Wednesday 7th August 2024, in the evening in the flower bed near the fish poind again I caught Misty interested in something, it was the Privet Moth caterpillar agian, but this time the top part of the 'body' of the larvae was brown rather than green, I think it was about to pupate and transform into chrysalis? Where hopefully it will bury itself in soil and all being well, hatch out next spring. I left it to crawl into deep foliage to complete this cycle. Also in the garden was a female Migrant Hawker, flying around and only settled once briefly. Plus 1 medium sized Frog and 1 tiny brown Frog.

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