When shouldn’t you cut/top a large patch of stinging nettles that your cattle have wilfully ignored to eat or trample?

When you look a bit closer and find that there are hundreds of peacock butterfly caterpillars munching their way through the patch, that’s when!

We appear to have a full age range from recently hatched tiny caterpillars to 1-month old chunky ones. They will be getting ready to pupate and after 2 weeks we should be seeing a rise in the number of peacocks around…fingers crossed. It’s always humbling to be taught a lesson from nature and realise that she has the answers already in hand. Topping off the agenda!