Sometime in July I found a massive caterpillar in amongst the raspberries. It was as long as my index finger, bright green, very soft and thick, with cute black markings. Probably the largest caterpillar I've seen in my life. Have now found out what it was. I thought it was the tomato hornworm but it's now more likely to have been a privet hawk moth caterpillar (Ligusterschwaermer).
It dropped from the leaf it was eating and I left it where it was. I'd checked: it hadn't done a lot of damage to the raspberries and I thought it was fairer to let it compete against the rest of our allotment wildlife.
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