If you've followed the acacia bush versus caterpillar versus cuckoo mini-series - then you'll understand how the vision of new growth on the above bush (which had seemed dead) inspired me to wax lyrical about endurance, persistence and all that. However, closer inspection revealed something else - Five caterpillars on the last of four bushes - apologies for poor pic quality - camera didn't want to focus on small twig - on the right the caterpillar is eating the tip of a bare stem. I wonder (again) why the moth laid her eggs on an almost leafless shrub - needless to say these caterpillars won't have enough food to reach maturity. Is this the final instalment?
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