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Cinnabar caterpillars was Compost
"K" wrote in message ... Ragwort is a native UK plant which is a primary food plant for the cinnabar moth, listed on the UK Biodiversity Action Plan as rapidly declining. In my childhood, every ragwort seemed to be crawling with handsome stripey cinnabar caterpillars and later we saw clouds of moths. but I hadn't seen any caterpillars for years . Last week, weeding the drive, I found a very stunted ragwort with two tiny cinnabar caterpillars on it. A couple of days later, no more had appeared, and the two had almost exhausted their larder so I moved them to a full-grown ragwort plant where they are gobbling and growing fast. I walked up the lane inspecting every ragwort I could find, not one caterpillar. Dunno why; there's no chemical spraying here. What luck to have them in my garden ! Janet |
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