To get to my allotment you have to.go along a path between some fields and the side of a house. It was in the grass on the verge not near ant water. It did not have 'spots' but it did have dips that were a white colour.
Was looking through the images on google last night the only thing remotely similar is something like a chafer grub pupa, i wonder if it was something which has been affected by a chemical etc
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Didn't think it would have been an orange slug - even with a blurry photograph.
Perhaps it was a large orange rice crispy
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How sure are you that this was a caterpillar Nikki? If you're sure I'll run through my moth files and see what I find
In the sticks near Peterborough
Any spots on it?
In the sticks near Peterborough
Nothing like that in my files, sorry. Plenty of big caterpillars, the hawkmoths, but nothing that colour
In the sticks near Peterborough
I just had a look through my insect book and a Purple hairstreak caterpillar looks to have a similar image but nowhere near big enough.
What an interesting beastie.