Saturday, February 27, 2010

MRS ASHBY AND THE BANANA BEAST

My life gets weirder. Yesterday evening we were sitting down, having a civilised glass of wine with our friends Jules and Dougie the Cornish ghost hunters when there was a knock on the back door.


It was Mrs Ashby, our one-time housekeeper, and her daughter. They were clutching a big tupperware box containing two bananas.


One one of the bananas was this. "What is it?" they asked. Well, to my eyes it seems like a cocoon of come sort, containing a chestnut brown chrysalis.



However, what or whom will hatch from said chrysalis, I have no ideas. Over to you folks....

1 comment:

  1. Can't give you and ID on this, but have seen similar a couple of years agon also from Bananas. And what emerged was a Burnet type moth, only unlike the British Burnet moth it was black with white spots and a white ring around the abdomen.

    Not mush different to this one
    http://bangalore.citizenmatters.in/pics/0000/0127/SevenspotBurnetMoth.jpg

    Shaun Histed-Todd

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