"Aileen Howard" wrote in message
...
Thanks to all of you for the replies - it was segmented as in an
armadillo! - and moved not on legs, but by peristalsis? Hope it isn't an
escaped pet and is just a baby, we do have a pet shop about half a mile
away
which sells all sorts of scary things (scary to me, anyway).

I suspect it was a hawkmoth chrysalis. I have seen them before and they can
move independently. It had probably been disturbed and was heading back to
the soil to pupate.


Matt


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