[Rach76]

Any ideas? It's quite large about the length of my finger. Is crawling around my lawn not very gracefully. Have never seen this before!

[Auntiemogs]

Elephant hawk moth?

[JayG]

Looks like a grasshopper to me - if you gurgle images of 'pink grasshopper' you may confirm that's what yours is (and if so, it's pretty rare.)

[jaydig]

I agree - it's an Elephant Hawk Moth. 

[Rach76]

Yes thanks all - elephant hawk moth. It's wings eventually came out. So beautiful

[sunshineband]

Yes thanks all - elephant hawk moth. It's wings eventually came out. So beautiful

Beautiful insect isn't it? Their larvae feed on fuchsia, amongst other things, so if later in the year you see caterpillars on your plants, that have little horn-tails on their rear end, then that is what they might well be

[JayG]

Looks like a grasshopper to me - if you gurgle images of 'pink grasshopper' you may confirm that's what yours is (and if so, it's pretty rare.)

Guess that pretty much spells the end of my new career as an entomologist!     

[Rach76]

Looks like a grasshopper to me - if you gurgle images of 'pink grasshopper' you may confirm that's what yours is (and if so, it's pretty rare.)

Guess that pretty much spells the end of my new career as an entomologist!