and with such accuracy as these two consecutive pictures show
Interestingly when we did the ID internet search it showed photographs of the caterpillar, which looked remarkably like this one photographed on our patio back in July. Their preferred plant is wild honeysuckle which we have on a trellis adjacent to where this was found.
It was great to see and photograph and we will be looking out for future visits.
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One of those very caterpillars fell on me whilst I was eating a couple of weeks ago. I was most alarmed!
Fabulous pics, super well done! You've been able to speed up the shutter to capture the eponymous broad borders, which I can't do (well only with extreme finerkling) on my camera.
Your caterpillar is definitely not a BBBHM though. They have spots not stripes. See this picture on UK Moths. All hawk moth caterpillars look fairly similar, but the devil is in the detail.
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