In message , June Hughes
writes
In message , Jaques
d'Alltrades writes
The message
from Kay contains these words:

It's what I've always known as a leather-jacket. larva or chrysalis of
something.

Crane fly.

Foe.

I always thought crane flies were daddy-long-legs but am willing to
stand corrected. Why are they foes?

Sounds more like a leatherjacket to me, and I thought they were foes.

Leather-jackets are the immature form of crane fly
But these beasties certainly seem to be the chrysalis of some sort of
moth. I don't think I could identify which one even after it has hatched
:-( There are so many and they are so similar
--
Sue Begg
Remove my clothes to reply

Do not mess in the affairs of dragons - for
you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup!

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Chrysalis it seems to be - but I'll probably never know for sure, as it's probably hatched out and made off by now!

Thanks, everybody, for all your help and suggestions. It's nice to know that I don't have an infestation of rare horrifying plant munchers...now all I have to do is worry about the extremely common plant munchers...