A question for those that might know...

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I was in the garden today and I noticed some of my caterpillar friends on my plants. My mother gets pissed at them and wants to kill them all with chemicals, but I don't want to encourage that because that might kill other local species (too many gardeners wholesale poison their yards and many local species are becoming extinct because of it).

So, these caterpillars... they're initially a lighter blondy-brown colour, fluffy, and the older and bigger they get, the blacker they become. Then they're huge big black fluffy things about seven centimetres long. Mum says they make you itch but they don't make me itch. I used to play with them for hours as a kid. They are also called woolly bears. Anyway, I pull them off the plant I like and put them amongst the weeds. Either they'll eat or starve, ya know. I usually put them in the nasturtiums that have gone wild down the back of the yard.

My question is - what do they become? They don't become cabbage moths because they are already pupated and flying around the garden, and they're green naked caterpillars. I'm pretty sure they become some kind of moth. Are they the big daddy moths that are as big as your palm-span? I love those things! If you know, do tell me!

Hugs,
Nancy.

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YAY!!!

Yeah I'm seriously considering wearing a skirt tonight.