"'Are you content now?' said the Caterpillar.

'Well, I should like to be a little larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind,' said Alice: 'three inches is such a wretched height to be.'

'It is a very good height indeed!' said the Caterpillar angrily, rearing itself upright as it spoke (it was exactly three inches high)."

-Charles Lutwidge Dodgson AKA Lewis Carroll

It isn’t likely that anyone will destroy this silky creation being the alder that host’s it is little more than a roadside weed that no one will step into rescue. This includes myself as it is not my place to interfere in the relationship between tree and caterpillar, for all I know they both may be benefiting from each other. It doesn’t look good though to see the leaves all chewed away and barren and many would say their presence spoils the view.

Many people find these types of creatures unpleasant and unsightly however there is beauty found glistening off of their intricate silky home. There is beauty in everything which you will eventually find if you carefully look for it. It is indeed a pretty wondrous and impressive to be able to weave such an amazing abode and to be able to spend your summer in such a scenic and comfortable location simply through your own effort. This is something as humans, even if we could do, we would never dare reduce ourselves to do. Instead we would create rules against performing such practical and natural activities in order to sate our egos by separating us from the lowly animals as well as stimulate our ever failing economies.

© TS Ni hUiginn