Caterpillar ID - Black orange and white

[elsmore1]

Hi, can anyone please identify this caterpillar found on an apple tree in Dorset.

Thanks

[Hedera]

This is a Drinker moth larva - pretty thing!

[elsmore1]

Thank you, it is so much more impressive in real life the orange especially, it really caught my eye, the pictures dont really do it justice.

Thanks

[JoanE007]

Hi,

I think it might be a Yellow Tail Moth caterpillar rather than that of a Drinker Moth ?

[elsmore1]

I think it is the yellow tail moth after looking at other pictures on the web, I wont touch It then if the hairs are irritating.

[k4t3]

Definately Yellow Tail rather than Drinker, Drinkers are much bigger with denser hairs and a blue colouration...plus they feed on grasses, not trees