An exotic caterpillar
At least, it looks exotic to me. I found it the other day sitting on a wooden pole in the countryside in the east of The Netherlands, which is not all that exotic a country to me.
It is the caterpillar of the lackey moth (Malacosoma neustria), ringelrups in Dutch:
Olympus Stylus 1s, 42mm, ISO200, f8, 1/50s
As so often, this very colourful caterpillar will change into a rather modest moth:
Photo by Algirdas, from Wikimedia Commons, under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
This is one of the most colourful caterpillars I have ever seen in The Netherlands, and also the first time I have seen this species.
The caterpillar is so beautiful. Really cool colors on it :) It is pretty incredible that those colorful caterpillars turn into pretty dull moths!
Какой кошмар:) Но фотографии отличные ;)
Спасибо!
Very bright caterpillar!
Amazing colors!
It's exotic alright, check those colours!!
This one look very tropical indeed! Never seen anything like this in Belgium when I lived there but Cambodia is packed with them!
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Cool :)
haven't seen one of those in a longgg time! rad colors
Cool, exotic caterpillars are my favorite! :)