… in these photographs (I snapped with my tiny camera phone today) of the same bit our long back garden fence, this afternoon.

Anything interesting?

Look hard.

Have a guess (as a comment if you like).

And I'll post later today or this week to tell you what you should be seeing....

And so therefore, what to look out for on your various walks alongside fences in the future....

Go on then.

A little closer...

OK.

As promised, a few days later... I'll reveal the answer now below.

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You may remember earlier this year, I discovered a puss moth caterpillar in our back garden, clearly looking for somewhere to pupate.

So I gave it a piece of wood on which to do just that.

And it did. (Video clips).

The puss moth pupa is now residing in our empty chicken run. This will be the case all winter and with any luck, the puss moth will emerge from its pupa (or chrysalis) in the Spring (in May I'd guess).

And THAT, laydeez and gennelmen is what you should have seen in the photos above.

An empty puss moth pupa  - on our back garden fence.

From which, clearly, a puss moth had emerged in  the Spring (of this year I'd say).

The great thing about our puss moth (empty) pupa is that I walked by it all summer, and only discovered it a few days ago, by chance, RIGHT NEXT to the spot where I happened across the puss moth caterpillar in July. The chances are that the caterpillar I found...

...was very possibly one of the offspring of the adult moth which had emerged from this pupa.

The circle of life (and all that).

Anyway… if you now see this sight on a fence near you... well... you'll know what it is now eh?

There's pretty-well not much else it could be - it's certainly one of the Cerurinae moths and it's  too big for a sallow kitten or any other kitten moth.

It's the empty pupa of a puss moth, you can tell your amazed audience who will wonder how on earth you know.

Just tell them "The Black Rabbit" told you....

Later.