Sometimes in life, things really P*ss Me off, and when something has to die for no reason that is one of them.
As a lover of nature, animals, and insects I have in the past joined groups to try and do my bit for the world.
Today, my wife brought to my attention that someone had found a caterpillar on a tomato plant, (pictured, Photo from Facebook)
The lady asked what it was and how to get kill it, I couldn't believe what I was reading, so I offered to take it of her hands, the problem was she lives in the USA and is a little out of my reach.
But as I was reading through the comments more and more people were telling her to kill it and giving her ideas on how to do it.
Why as humans does it have to come to kill something? why can't we just take it from where it is and relocate it?
There is nothing stopping her from getting a jar and taking it to a field where it can live a life.
Or even leaving it on that one plant that has been destroyed and letting it get to adulthood.
There is already a shortage in our insects, and if the rate drops to nothing then there will be nothing pollinating our crops which means we will be going hungry.
Moth caterpillars are just as important as butterfly caterpillars and I for one, when I get my butterfly house up and running, will be offering to rehome any caterpillars of any type.
I feel like I can do my bit for mother nature.