Having cleared out the earthquake emergency box and taken out everything that was out of date, I still can’t throw food away. So I continue to cook unwanted food for my colony of sparrows!
Having proven that house sparrows, blue tits and great tits will eat instant noodles, my latest experiment proves they will also demolish a packet of mini macaroni in 24 hours flat!
The bad news concerns the caterpillar living on the geranium on my desk at work, which grew visibly hour by hour . I did wonder how it would fare over the weekend with no one to admire its hairy plumpness and unfortunately my misgivings were well founded. On Monday morning he was gone. He may have crawled out the window; he may have metamorphosed into a butterfly and flown away in record time; or he may have squished by the cleaner. I leave you to decide.
On the upside a swallowtail caterpillar is eating the fennel in my veg patch safe from offices and zealous cleaners. I am banking on this one making it to butterfly!
Cathy's real country garden 
Sorry that we will never learn what happened to your office critter. I will keep my fingers crossed for this caterpillar. It would be wonderful to capture a photo after the transformation!
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As long as a passing cleaner does not tidy him up!
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Let’s keep our fingers crossed…
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I would never have guessed they would happily have instant noodles! 🙂 I’m going to tell myself that the first caterpillar was just an extra speedy one and that this one will make it to being a butterfly too! 🙂 xxx
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Well, as long as I keep it away from my work it should survive!x
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Maybe put a little sign next to him. 🙂 xxx
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It’s surprising what birds will eat. Shame about the office caterpillar, and I like new one. xx
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I am not recommending this as a new regime for bird feeding , I just hate waste🐥🐥
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The optimist inside of me tells the caterpillar escaped. Definitely a story in there somewhere!
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Either a tragedy or a comedy!
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