Goat moth caterpillar.

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11 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

We pugged it up in a wild corner of the garden to give it the best chance.

 

They are getting quite rare apparently.

 

Not sure why they emerge from a safe spot and embark on a dangerous journey to find somewhere else to pupate.

 

There's a lot of madness like that in the animal kingdom. Think of the life cycles of Eels or Salmon for instance. Or Newts hauling themselves out of nice cosy ponds to treck across fields and roads in the blind hope of finding another pond the same. 

 

Eels have crazy lifecycles. I thought they could travel a long way over ground, but this says thousands of miles. 

 

This map solves a century-old mystery about eels - Big Think

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For the first time ever, scientists were able to link eel migration to their presumed spawning grounds in the Sargasso Sea.