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. The speckled wood is a slim elegant creature, with large broad brown wings, and yet the squat green pupa under the frisbee looked wholly other.The speckled wood is unique amongst British butterflies in that it regularly overwinters in both caterpillar

fluttered in and deposited eggs. These hatched into caterpillars, which then proceeded to demolish the cabbages. (For future reference this is best avoided by covering the developing cabbages with horticultural fleece, through which the butterflies cannot

nearly all of the leaves decimated. We have shook off many caterpillars - and sprayed it. Just hope it comes back. This has never happened before in the 6 years we have lived here. We live in North Manchester and not heard of anyone else locally

every year. I love growing naturtiums and watching the green and black caterpillars tucking into the leaves.Then the day always comes when the leaves have gone but so have the caterpillers. Do they crawl into the ground? I never manage to see any pupae

, and others usually as either caterpillars or chrysalides. Five winter as adults: peacock, small tortoiseshell, comma, red admiral and brimstone. It is only the migrants -- painted ladies, clouded yellows, Camberwell beauties -- that die off completely to re

I'm hoping someone will buy me a moth trap for Christmas Richard, or at least the electrics so I can make one. We get loads of moths and caterpillars in our garden but I can never identify them... I found a beautiful moth in my greenhouse yesterday

to me. Anyone got any idea what this is and what I can do. Any advice is much appreciated. Your leaves have probably been eaten by caterpillars of some sort. There's not much that you can do about them other than pick them off when you see them

the plants would become.  They went mad very quickly, I diligently picked off the caterpillars every day and fed them to the chickens much to my son's delight!  The plants have become so huge most of them collapsed but have still had plenty of life.  Today

turn into caterpillars which eat the leaves. On occasion they have stripped the leaves of my cherry tree almost completely - but grease bands do prevent this happening. You can buy them from most garden centres in the autumn. THere's more information

what emerges, but bear in mind caterpillars of the Large White can defoliate a plant in mere days!