caterpillars and late summer sun
We're having the best weather of the year. Lovely days in parks and paddling pools. Callum spotted this caterpillar on a tree walking back from the barber yesterday. It will turn into the smerinthus ocellata -more commonly known as the eyed hawk moth. We watched it for ages - the blue tail was fascinating.
No pics of his "do" yet - but it is not drastic as the instructions to the cutter were something along the lines of "can you make it look as though you haven't cut it because his Dad really doesn't want it cut" .....!
The paddling pools are great fun now that the schools have started again and the littlies rule the roost once more.
Callum and Charlotte have started to play together properly- which is great fun for all of us!
And a random picture of bath time a couple of days ago for fun.
4 comments:
What lovely happy pictures, thank you.
"It will turn into the smerinthus ocellata..." ...Really?!?!?!?
I'm astonished - was that Callum that came up with the Latin or his Dad? Very impressive - perhaps a career in Zoology awaits - (for either of them! ;-)))))
well actually it was his mother's post and I indentified the caterpillar using ukmoths.org.uk and then spent ages looking at months etc... and even left a comment on their website - before I realised that I should really be doing something else!
We didn't see anything like that at the butterfly museum last weekend - huge butterflies but that smerinthus ocellata takes the biscuit!
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