Emergence

My eldest found a chrysalis while we were weeding the front garden. She put it in a jar with a wire mesh top (yeah, we have these just hanging around for exactly this reason) and in about a week a moth emerged! She let it go outside after its photo session. After doing a search on iNaturalist we found out the caterpillar form is called an armyworm and damages crops. Hmm.

Empty chrysalis
White-speck moth