Wednesday, August 31, 2011

two items of interest


In our garden this afternoon, the enormous caterpillar of the elephant hawk moth, trying to frighten us with his evil eye trick, and below a female spider carrying her egg sac with her to ensure  the best start possible for her off-spring.



4 comments:

Tara said...

A protective Mom!

How large is the moth when the caterpillar is so large? Wow!

Spot said...

quite big, in fact there is a picture in the blog of the adult moth if you search under elephant

Tara said...

searching!

Tara said...

July 14, 2006!