Found this beautiful creature munching its way through the sweet basil on my kitchen window sill! I've Googled caterpillars without any success - I think it's a moth rather than a butterfly.
(http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/8325/caterpillar1.jpg) (http://img341.imageshack.us/i/caterpillar1.jpg/)
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(http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/3594/caterpillar2.jpg) (http://img37.imageshack.us/i/caterpillar2.jpg/)
By Grandma62 (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/Grandma62)
I've never seen anything like it! Any ideas, please?
seen his type before but can't remember what it was, it was on here, not to long ago..will see if I can find it ;D
is it this ?
http://www.allotments4all.co.uk/smf/index.php/topic,53296.msg542476.html#new
i think its a Vapourer/Rusty Tussock - 'Orgyia antiqua' found one in my garden way back in May
It looks like a Tussock Moth caterpillar but i dont know what type of Tussock moth
Duke :)
That looks like it, Manics!
It was such a beautiful looking thing, I just had to find what it was - and knew the clever folks on here would know!
Thanks, to you all, for your help.