“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”

Lao Tzu

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Caterpillars /ˈkætərˌpɪlər/ are the larval stagee of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).

Zebrarups

On ragwort flowers

Corupá - Brazil.

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In my backyard

Taken in Lichfield

Canon EOS 5DS R

TAMRON 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010

ƒ/16.0 300.0 mm 1/125 3200

I didn't see this hidden below the flower buds 'till I zoomed in. :-))

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a monarch butterfly caterpillar

Spikey caterpillar. Those spikes at the head end are both retractible and capable of stinging. The sting is very mild, a bit like being stung by a half-hearted stinging nettle. You know you have brushed one, but that is about it.

If you google the name "LIMACODIDAE" you will come up with some very spectacular looking caterpillars.

Found on Callum Brae, Australian Capital Territory, January, 2015.

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Early stage Drinker Moth caterpillar.Fully grown caterpillars are up to 7cm in length. They are dark grey with golden speckling and have brown hair tufts along the body.

Swallowtail

Audierne, Finistère, Brittany, France

I spotted this Viceroy caterpillar in a tree yesterday while 3 of us were out hunting clubtails again. Hadn't seen a Viceroy cat in awhile. Not sure of the tree - they use several as their host plants. The adult Viceroys spend most of their time in the open wetlands.

>> Viceroy caterpillar, yesterday at the wetlands - N. Georgia

See recent shot of a Viceroy - similar to a Monarch in appearance.

A caterpillar in my garden

Yellow-tail (Euproctis similis)

This is the larvae of a Tussock Moth, adults and larvae both have dangerous barbed hairs and should not be handled and can be painful.

The name Yellow-tail comes from the slight yellow smudge to the wings of the male adult moth.

Photographed last September 2017.

Last year a horde of small caterpillars quickly destroyed around 50% of a box hedge which Ray had planted and lovingly nurtured.

This year their offspring from the webby structures they built on the leaves of the remaining hedge are hatching out and starting to chomp away at it.

Numerous remedies have failed to tackle them - anyone have any ideas?

Of Common crow butterfly

Clicked in my garden

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California

Caterpillar

rups van koninginnepage -

Machaon caterpillar

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Caterpillar

The only creature (that we can catch), so far, that I have had to say no to Evan holding due to the potential rash or irritation it can cause.

I think it's possibly a Brown Tail Caterpillar but please correct me if I'm wrong.

Standhisround and Jeff have probably correctly identified him as a Knot Grass Caterpillar

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