Tiny

Describe a family member.

Tiny is the family caterpillar.He’s been with us many years since  we rescued him from a silk farm in China which we visited when on holiday.

In truth, he fell into our laps when we were looking around the nursery during  the visit to the  silk worm factory .He ended up in the pocket of my jacket and to cut a long story short,he came home with us.

Luckily for us,my uncle is a renowned alternative entomologist, so we had a lot of good advice and specialist care which meant we have been able to keep Tiny as a caterpillar and prevent him turning into a butterfly

Some would say that it was cruel and against nature,but Tiny is very happy, and is such a character that losing  him would be devastating to all of us.

So Tiny, who has remained  tiny  has his own vivarium and also has designated plants that he can exercise on .The only pitfall being he likes to wander.

We’ve lost him in the house a few times,but each time he made  his way back to his vivarium,he’s bright green and quite hairy, we think he has a leg missing,but it doesn’t seem to affect him.He certainly is n’t poisonous and he loves being handled and crawling onto your hands.

He’s a well loved member of our family and we’re kind of glad he didn’t end up as  a silk shirt .