Moving feet + camera > Photo of the week archive 2007 (27) > Spurge hawkmoth larvae w/c 19/11/07

Caterpillars and butterflies emerge as the autumn flowers appear in the Greek countryside.  These beautiful spurge hawkmoth larvae, as their name suggests, hatch out on spurge or euphorbia [the sap is poisonous so avoid touching the plant] which grows wild all over the Mani.