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I've been slack, and unenthused, and caught up in too many other things to keep up my daily notes here. I still try and take note of any wildlife I see, but so often I don't get to write about it in time and then there's a gaping hole that I want to fill in before I start on "today" and before I know it the hole is a week... two weeks... a month. Here we are again
There was 52mm of rain overnight and everything is drenched, cool autumnal weather that's ideal for a weekend we'd set aside for cooking up a large batch of homemade tomato sauce. The tomatoes come from the local fruit market, we don't grow enough to have the sauce 100% home made!
Back and forth into the garden during the morning to throw peels and seeds and mush into the compost bins, the bin lids a seething mass of slaters, giant Lemon slugs and earthworms. As I walked over to throw the remnants of the tea leaves onto a rose bush I glanced across at the lime tree next to it — the large black and white caterpillar is still there, chomping away on the leaves and gradually denuding that branch. I'd first seen it on about Wednesday this week, guessed that it was some sort of Swallowtail from the number of the butterflies that we've seen around over the past week. Checking a few pictures and I'm fairly sure it's a Dainty swallowtail[1], or Small dingy swallowtail, a rather dull name for a fairly attractive medium-large butterfly. I wonder how many more days I'll see it here for?
[1] dainty swallowtail, dingy swallowtail or small citrus butterfly
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