What Sort Of Caterpilla Is This?

cassa333 | 14:29 Sat 05th Oct 2013 | Animals & Nature

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It is bright vivid yellow with plack stripes where i'ts body segments and has a long red tuft at it's behind. It has 'spiky hair' all over it's body.

I've not seen one like it before or this late in the season!!

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Milvus

Could be a Pale Tussock moth caterpillar, but it's very late in the year.
http://www.econetreading.org.uk/photos/PaleTussockMothCaterpillar02.html

boxtops

this one ? http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/forums/eggs-larvae-and-caterpillars/78603-bristly-caterpillar-red-tuft.html

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Hi,

Thank you.

I tried posting the other day but my computer decided not to work :(

Unless it is a shape shifter and changes depending on who is looking at it, it is definately the Pale Cussock Moth.

It was a little Jimmy no mates all alone so wonder where it came from and why it is about so late in the year?

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