Thankyou again for a very clear answer. I'm not so worried about inadvertently taking over the butterfly kingdom with peacocks! We will keep our eyes open next few weeks as things start hatching and emerging. Hopefully will find caterpillars on host plants, so won't be plaguing you all for IDs! My d...

Thankyou both Vince and Chris. Since posting, it has eaten some mixed salad leaf and settled down underneath it all with a little bit of silk spun to hold the leaves together. It's obviously hiding out for winter, so it sounds right that most likely a moth. To keep my 4 year old happy, we've gone fo...

Hi, When looking for something in heated garden shed yesterday an extremely green caterpillar landed on my shoulder! Have put it indoors for now, it has shown some interest in mixed salad leaves, but seems to have spun a little bit of silk. Is this more likely to be an early hatcher, a hibernater, a...