Something with a voracious appetite has unfortunately been snacking on our geraniums, which is a little surprising since they’re supposedly odious things to eat and even release chemicals that create a fire-wall for mosquitoes that the pests will avoid. That’s why they’re grown in window boxes, to keep intruders out. Examining the holes, we first wanted to blame a snail but then wondered how a snail would manage to reach the balcony. After some more investigation, we found the culprit feasting away, a poisonously green
Hawk Moth caterpillar (
Pappelschwรคrmer).
Gently, humanely, it was displaced to another buffet to complete its metamorphisis into that strange humming bird-like insect. The flowers are surviving as well. This would also account for those mysterious microscopic pellets—caterpoo.
Something with a voracious appetite has unfortunately been snacking on our geraniums, which is a little surprising since they’re supposedly odious things to eat and even release chemicals that create a fire-wall for mosquitoes that the pests will avoid. That’s why they’re grown in window boxes, to keep intruders out. Examining the holes, we first wanted to blame a snail but then wondered how a snail would manage to reach the balcony. After some more investigation, we found the culprit feasting away, a poisonously green Hawk Moth caterpillar (Pappelschwรคrmer). 
Gently, humanely, it was displaced to another buffet to complete its metamorphisis into that strange humming bird-like insect. The flowers are surviving as well. This would also account for those mysterious microscopic pellets—caterpoo.
