.....caterpillar crawling......

Thanks for all the suggestions about themes.....I'll take them all and put them to one side for when I'm really stuck.......had two blips today but eventually settled on this one.

The Council delivered a green bin today......that makes 4! A grey one for "General household waste", a blue one for glass and plastic, a brown one for garden waste and now a green one for paper and cardboard....and they want to send us a black "Kitchen Kaddy" for waste food.....fat chance in this house....which we then have to empty into the brown bin when it's full....sod that for a game of soldiers.

I'm waiting until I get the letter telling me it's my trun to drive the friggin' truck!

The Boss was making the best of the sunshine when I got home....filling up the brown bin....and she let out a yell just as I sat down at the computer. "Come see this , come see this, quick!" This little fella was on the lid of the new bin.

The Daughter indentified it on the interweb as the caterpillar of the Muslin Moth....and instantly blamed Charlotte for it's presence as she has a muslin cloth with her at all times for mopping up baby drool!

I looked it up and read that they displayed sexual diamorphism......the dirty little devils! I thought....then remembered it meant that the males and females are different colours etc....the male moths are brown with black spots and the females are white with black spots. They have a wing span of 38mm, so no mouse fart moth them! The interweb also says they're common moths....oh yeah?....well how come none of us has ever seen one then?

Just as I was half way through typing this another shriek from the garden had us back out side....last week's Ichneumon fly was back....and stalking the caterpillar! They like to lay their eggs in other creepy crawlers! A chase across the bin lid ensued and eventually they both plunged off the back....."Help him Dad", said the Daughter...."No, it's just Nature", said the Boss....so I left them to it.

See what an exciting late afternoon we're having....now there's something with what looks like an enormous (in insect terms) sting at the arse end flying round the keyboard.....I'm getting rid of that bugger....Nature or not!

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