M\ahoosive caterpiller

MouldyOldDough

twopenny said:

They tend to pupate in the ground over winter. I used to unearth them when clearing under a hedge.

Just bury them shallowly again 

Just left it with its meal 
Looks pretty angry - if I move it it might attack me!! 

MouldyOldDough

I prodded it gently with a blade of grass and it turned and sneered at me !

Woolsery

MouldyOldDough said:

I prodded it gently with a blade of grass and it turned and sneered at me !

It has no ability to hurt you. The only ones that might are the very hairy sort; the hairs might cause skin irritation or be inhaled and cause dizzines/breathing problems.

Sneering isn't catching, but of course it's there on the spectrum of hate crime so keep your distance, just in case.

MouldyOldDough

Woolsery said:

MouldyOldDough said:

I prodded it gently with a blade of grass and it turned and sneered at me !

It has no ability to hurt you. The only ones that might are the very hairy sort; the hairs might cause skin irritation or be inhaled and cause dizzines/breathing problems.

Sneering isn't catching, but of course it's there on the spectrum of hate crime so keep your distance, just in case.

Caterpillars do scream.
I've heard them.in the past 
It's extremely unnerving 

Alnat1

They are almost as big as M&S's Colin!!

I can remember finding one as a kid. Mum let me keep it in a big jar (she ran a sweet shop at the time) and I gave him fresh privet every day until he made his cocoon. We kept the jar in the shed over winter. In spring we took the lid off the jar and lay it on it's side under the hedge and one morning he had hatched and gone.

Woolsery

Alnat1 said:

They are almost as big as M&S's Colin!!

They don't taste quite the same though! Don't believe those grub-eating celebrities.

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