Sugar snaps Zambia Waitrose...found this...

[Apolloboy]

Waitrose reaction...! put it in another plastic bag seal it up & throw away!
Well for one... ANOTHER plastic bag!!! Makes a mockery of their ... let’s look after the Environment!
And advocating killing something!
Teenagers look aghast... & vowing to not eat anything from there again !

Aww, what have you done with it?

What were you hoping they’d say? Your teenagers probably need some education and a lesson in resilience if they don’t realise that insects live on vegetables! If you're So concerned about the environment, you should be happy that your food is obviously not flooded with pesticides

So what would you have them do with a potentially invasive species that could threaten UK habitats?

Don't the teenagers realise that food comes from plants - and plants tend to attract pest species?

They should be grateful - it means the peas aren't doused with great quantities of pesticides and haven't been grown in energy intensive mega greenhouses using gazillions of gallons of water, electricity and even more plastic.

Umm, yes you should isolate and dispose of potentially invasive species which could do untold damage to the local wildlife.

I bet you threw them off guard for contacting them over something so stupid.

Just flick it off and carry on

I'm not sure i'd be worrying about a plastic bag when your food's being flown in from Zambia.

Seriously? This is why “grow your own” died out as soon as supermarkets came along. Our back garden vegtables in the 70’s were riddled with caterpillars, larvae’s and flies.

But it's so cute. Poor iccle caterpillar.

PS It’s not too late to grow sugar snaps. Dead easy and grow well in a pot. Did you consider the food miles from Zambia when you bought them when they’re perfectly in season here? Supermarkets environmental responsibility generally stretches as far as what the consumer cares about and wants to do something about.

Gosh yes OP. They shouldve picked it up and put it on the first flight back to Zambia

Poor cute caterpillar separated from its family and friends.

I can't understand buying veg from the other side of the world in the middle of summer when there is so much fruit and veg grown in the UK and nearby countries.

And what were you expecting from Waitrose - compensation I suppose?

Can the caterpillar be rehomed?

What the what now? It's a facking caterpillar!

Flying in from Zambia > plastic bag

Your teenagers are being ridiculous and yes kill it, don't release it when you don't know what it is or where it came from on its food miles journey.

Better than the large pigeon feather I found in a bag of frozen veg from Waitrose. We’ve been wondering which lucky soul got the rest of the pigeon.

Call the RSPCA Hun.

Surely it's not going to be an invasive species without mate? Poor lonely thing - leave him alone and give him a name.

Log it with 101 and the RSPCA

My Waitrose have bio degradable produce bags now, so if they used one of those, then YABU.

@Ironmanrocks the caterpillar could very easily be hosting all sorts of colonies of mites, fungal spores and plant seeds so it’s really not as simple as it’s not invasive without a mate.

It looks like a box tree moth caterpillar anyway. No biggy. Although hopefully it's carrying mites that will kill all of the other bastard things that are currently attacking my garden.