今年のはじめ、花壇を作るためにこのメキシカンハニーサックルを移動させなくてはならなくて、花壇を作ってる間は大きめの鉢に移植し、その後出来上がった花壇にまた移植。
結構タフな人生を送っていたこのハニーサックル君なんだけど、最近やっと移植後のショックから立ち直り、花が咲き始めたな～と思っていた矢先・・・。
この前まで緑々しかったハニーサックル君の葉っぱが全部無くなって惨めな茎だけになってるうぅぅぅぅ。
一体何が起こったのかと見てみたら
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| Rustic Sphinx? |
びっくりするぐらい大きなアオムシだったので、オットが帰ってくるまで取っておいた。（もちろんその後は塀の向こうに投げ捨てた）
一体このアオムシはどんなステキな蝶に変身するのでしょうと思ってリサーチしてみたら、どうもこれ、蛾のアオムシだった（泣）私、蛾がとても苦手。
Our Mexican Honeysuckle has gone through a tough life. We bought it a several years ago and planted it in the back yard. At the beginning of this year, we transplanted it into a big pot while our new raised flower bed was being made. After the flower bed was done, it was planted back in the flower bed.
The last couple of weeks, it had finally come back to grow and started to flower. But when I looked at it when I got home from work, it was all of a sudden totally bold, leaving only sorry looking bold stems. Then I found this ginormous caterpillar, eating my precious honeysuckle leaves and dropping hundreds of big poops all over.
I was hoping at least it could be some sort of beautiful butterfly or something, but oh no, it was a moth caterpillar. I think it is called Rustic Sphinx from looking at the picture.
Yup, sorry caterpillar, but I have to toss you over the fence.
What is funny is that there are tons of brown ugly caterpillars on our citrus trees and I thought those were some kind of moth caterpillars. Actually they were swallowtail butterflies. I guess I will keep them on my trees even though they are so ugly looking...
I just do not like moths...
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