Weird dead hawk (?) moth (spoilered)

[gentlegreen]

I found a dead hawk moth yesterday - hoped initially that it was alive, but when I turned it over I saw something weird....

Spoiler: yuck

Those look like hawk moth eggs ...

EDIT - seen elsewhere :-

Spoiler: yuck2

 

[Chilli.s]

Cor! wonder what will hatch out... like a surprise pet.

 

[JimW]

Take off and nuke the site from orbit.

 

[gentlegreen]

I think I put it somewhere safe, but it would be handy to know the food plant so I could relocate it...

 

[maomao]

It's basically caviar. Try it and let us know how you get on.

 

[gentlegreen]

Perhaps lime hawk moth ?

lime hawk moth eggs - Google Search

www.google.com

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Perhaps lime hawk moth ?

lime hawk moth eggs - Google Search

www.google.com

That is where limes come from. Let them firm up a bit then juice them.

 

[gentlegreen]

Plenty of lime trees on site, so I will see what I can do ...
i wonder if relocated larvae would actually be super-fussy ...

 

[gentlegreen]

Lime Hawkmoth

life cycle, Mimas tiliae
Eggs are laid in small batches on the larval foodplant – a variety of deciduous leaves including lime, birch, elm and alder (ref Porters – see recommended reference books). Females attracted to light readily lay eggs and the hatching larvae are easily reared through.

Nearest trees were birch

 

[farmerbarleymow]

Come on gentlegreen - you have to taste one and let us know what it's like.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Last week I noticed something odd on the bathroom window, but dismissed it as a sticker or something else child-related



Thursday I saw the thing had changed shape...and there was MOVEMENT



Proper cartoon concertina movements. Mrs SI washed them off and onto the kitchen roof below as I think they'd been eating only one another. I wanted to keep one and raise it as my moth child, loving and protecting it and feeding it apple, carrot, and steadily increasing doses of radioactive material