Thank you, Scott and Essex Bertie, for your kind contributions. I am most grateful for all the help offered by this site. And thank you for the direction to the UKleps site, which I didn’t know about before, and has some wonderful photos. I’m really grateful to everyone for their time and considerat...

Thank you so much, Chris, Allan, Mikhail and Andy, for your help and suggestions. I am fairly new to butterflying, and moths are still uncharted waters for me, so it is lovely to learn more! I suppose the only way to know for sure is if this caterpillar makes it through to become a moth. If so, I wi...

Hi Can anyone please help to identify this caterpillar? It came to me in an iceberg lettuce (produce of Spain) at Christmas. It survived the cold of the fridge and at first played dead, but then it uncurled itself and began to eat the lettuce. I have it in a box in a cool place (with lettuce) and it...