Is there anything better than a hefty caterpillar? But what about that spike on its behind, is that something to be worried about?
Thankfully not! I won’t lie though, I was a little bummed that this wasn’t the caterpillar of the large elephant hawk moth, but Convolvulus was something I didn’t even know existed until I found these brown-green logs in the garden in late summer last year.
What all the hawk-moth caterpillars have in common is that horn on the end, it’s not dangerous, it’s in fact quite soft. Did I touch it? Of course — anything in the name of science and … art?
