Sunday, October 06, 2013

woolly bears?


a very large caterpillar found crossing the road up to Kit Hill. It looks a bit like the caterpillar of the tiger moth known colloquially as woolly bears, but it is very large for a tiger moth caterpillar and a slightly different colour. I haven't been able to identify it. Many caterpillars are leaving their food plants now to look for somewhere to hibernate.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wonderful Autumn foliage!

Just had wonderful weekend in St Ives looking in loads of galleries and seeing a lot of rubbish but some really great work.

Lisa

Lesley FW said...

Does look like some type of Tiger Moth caterpillar. Saw similar down at the Lizard earlier in year.