On a walk around my "patch" (which I'll blog about one day) this afternoon, I happened across this chap(pess).

A small but fully grown ruby tiger moth caterpillar.

This furry wee thing will overwinter as a caterpillar, rather than form a hard pupa like any sensible moth would do.

Daft if you ask me, but hey... I don't make the rules.

The above video you'll note is on Vimeo. (Not my 'normal' YouTube).

I've made an executive decision recently to come off YouTube and post my little video clips on Vimeo instead - as to me... well... they look like they're compressed less than YouTube videos and therefore 'praps' better quality.

Finally. Please forgive the heavy breathing on the clip above - it's not JUST that I'm excited when I find a caterpillar (although I am of course!) the heavy breathing on this clip can also be explained by the fact that I shot the clip with my very basic phone, with earphones in (I was listening to a talk show on the wireless phone-radio at the time) and therefore the microphone picking up sound for this video clip was RIGHT NEXT to my cake 'ole, when I pressed "record", rather than on the phone itself, as it would normally be.