Hi folks - wonder if anyone can help please.
Was at a BBQ at the weekend and left my chair for a few moments - when I went back there was a hairy caterpillar on my chair - have been googling all morning and can't find out what it is. Its features were -
fawn bristly hairs all over
tufts of yellow short hairs (like spots) running down the top of its back
black tufts that looked like antennae
a black tuft like a little sticky-up tail close to its rear end
(Maybe it is my imagination, but I have had a nasty spotty irritation on my arm since then :o)
Any clues as to what it was that I saw?
hi decrepit
did your caterpillar look like this?
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,35017.0.html
Hi there! Gosh that was a quick reply ;D
Pretty close, but he wasn't so dark - definitely light fawn hair all over (quite long but not tufted) with yellow tufts and his black antennae and 'tail'.
(My Dad called all hairy caterpillars 'hairy oobits').