Insight: The larva has several changes of coat, known as instars, with the first stripy instar looking very different from the impressively hairy final one as shown above.
Our first caterpillar of 2011 seen at Kennack Sands
on 27 February 2011 with No Comments
Things are certainly starting to warm up at last. The sun encouraged two over-wintered Fox Moth caterpillars to bask on a sheltered bank at Kennack Sands, part of the National Nature Reserve on The Lizard in Cornwall.
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