We need a bath. Not in an Irish way of needing a bath - but in a Moroccan way of needing one. We have been travelling for weeks in the hot, arid landscape and looking for Painted Lady caterpillars on the sides of dusty, dirty Moroccan roads. On top of that we have been staying in budget hotels where the washing facilities are variable (one shower, for example, threatened to explode when you turned on the hot water!). So although we are clean to look at from a d...

The 2009 Painted Lady migration to northern Europe and British Isles was one of the largest on record and it was predicted by Constanti following a visit to the Souss Valley in the Spring. Here he recorded thousands of caterpillars near Taroudant. And we are really excited to visit the site. What will we find? Our hotel is booked up so this morning we have to find another before we can head out. Taroudant is an ancient, red-walled city and a maze of narrow str...