Malcolm Ogilvie wrote:


In article , Rick Thomas
writes
Just found this in the garden
http://www.offroad.btconnect.com/temp/P8230661a.JPG

Big bugger isn't it?

Any Idea what it is?

Elephant Hawk-moth.

Leave it alone and it'll eventually turn into this:

http://www.butterfly-conservation.or...s/test1/a.html

it feeds on willowherb, fuchsia, etc., so not really a threat to your
garden plants.

Sod the garden plants, I want more wildlife in the garden.

Heresy, I know, but that's what I feel. I'll grow plants specifically to feed
the bugs (provided I like the bugs that is) and if I like the plants as well,
that's a bonus.

Rick...
Rick....
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Yield to temptation - It might not pass your way again.