Caterpillar ID

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ihaveaquestion
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Caterpillar ID

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Hi, I have found this little fellow on my half-eaten echium pininana and would quite like to move it to a different plant, but I know nothing about caterpillars and haven't been able to ID it despite looking at scores of pics. I live near Bournemouth if that is useful.
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(That's a centimetre scale btw)
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Grateful for any help, Martin. (PS, I put it back after the photo shoot)
ihaveaquestion
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Re: Caterpillar ID

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Success! Looks as though it is a Jersey tiger moth but don't know where it's got to now.

I will just write some keywords in the hope they may help someone else Googling, if that's OK: hairy orange ginger rusty bronze black banded stripey striped New Forest Solent South Coast moth butterfly larva

I have some more pics but none very photographic; just say if you'd like to see.

This is the web site that sorted me out: http://www.jasonsteelwildlifephotograph ... -moths.php
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