Thursday 22 July 2010

Tortoiseshell caterpillars


Following the Peacock butterfly nurseries that I found on a couple of patches of nettles, there are now quite a few Tortoiseshell nurseries on nettles. They seem to have chosen the young nettles that had grown up where I strimmed them rather than the full-height nettles. That's two caterpillars I recognise now.

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