Oh spring is really here! Things are changing viridescently as temperatures warm and rain sprinkles down. Whilst lifting a layer of moss for transplanting a few days ago, I encountered this enormously fat pupa beneath.
It is apparently one of the Sphinx/Hawk moths, one of which we all know as the Hummingbird moth. It has been overwintering in the soil, waiting for spring, like all of us. I was very, very careful to rebury this critter. But ouch, I could have cut into it by not knowing or expecting it to be there. What hazards we impose on other creatures ...
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