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Agreed a top image.... Is the moth native to the UK?...Are you going to let it grow so we can see the moth?

This particular one is native to the UK (the Privet Moth is the largest of British moths with a wing span of about five inches) but there's a wide range of Hawk Moths and they are found in lots of countries.

 

I'm certainly not going to look after it. I just put it back where I found it. They are born from an egg and grow by shedding their skins, which they may do three or four times. They become a pupa; reddy brown and with a hard shell, inside which the adult moth develops and eventually breaks free. Just like butterflies really.

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