In recent weeks one of our tangerine trees has been infested with the most iffy caterpillars. They start out as a slightly offensive worm measuring about two or three centimetres...
...and grow to great squishy green monsters, seven to eight centimetres in length. So it was one Sunday morning when I was flicking yet more caterpillars off the leaves when I noticed a large butterfly flitting indecisively from leaf to leaf. It then perched awkwardly on one, pulled its abdomen towards the leaf and...laid an egg.
This had me Googling in no time and there I found indeed, that the picture above is the squishy green monster metamorphosed.
