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Tweed River Art Gallery (Murwillumbah, NSW, Australia) presents a new exhibition for insect lovers named Beauty and Nature: Art of the Scott sisters. There you can see butterflies and moths, caterpillars and plants depicted in paintings and sketches made by two famous 19th century nature artists, Harriet and Helena Scott. Susi Muddiman, director of the Tweed River Art Gallery, says that both ...
The species added, photo moved to "uncertain". So let it be identified by Dmitry for he was the first who suggested N. hylas.
Caterpillars actually can be rather harmful, not too much though. Last year I've got a colony of large tortoiseshell caterpillars (Nymphalis polychloros L.) in a pear tree at my country house. They did eat completely a 50—60cm tree branch, so what? It's nothing for a 5m spreading tree. I convinced my wife not to take them away. In that very year a huge twiggy bough of approximately 2m length ...