Can anyone identify this Caterpillar I’ve just found?!

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• BobTheGardener Posts: 11,385

  July 2020

  Pretty sure the pretty thing is a Vapourer Moth caterpillar.

  https://www.naturespot.org.uk/species/vapourer
  

  
  

  A trowel in the hand is worth a thousand lost under a bush.
  

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• MyPotteringPlace Posts: 2

  July 2020

  Thank you 😊 🐛 I’ve just read the link and see it’s quite common where I live - never seen the moth or the caterpillar before though! 

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• herbaceous Posts: 2,318

  July 2020

  I'm guessing lots of people will have been seeing things in their garden for the first time over the past few months pcfreer.  Quite apart from the opportunity we have had some odd weather   

  "The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it."  Sir Terry Pratchett

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• josusa47 Posts: 3,530

  July 2020

  What a glamorous caterpillar!  It looks like something an Edwardian lady would wear on her hat.

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