The other day I found a caterpillar of a campion moth (Hadena rivularis) nestling comfortably in the opened seed pod of, guess what, a red campion (Silene dioica).
I kept if for a day or two so that I could get a photo of it stretched out.
After our studio session had finished I gathered some fresh campion leaves and pods and the caterpillar immediately 'got its head down' as they say (see below). It is now, of course, too big to fit completely into the pods as it did when I first found it.
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