Hairy Caterpillar to ID

[photokev43]

Hi Everybody,
New to WAB and this website!!
How do you attach an attachment? Clicking on 'manage attachments', nothing apparently happens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kevin

[Mark43]

Hi Kev and welcome to WAB.

Click on manage attachments and another window will open allowing you to browse your pc for a pic or one from an online url.

This will also give you the file sizes allowed for whichever type of pic you are uploading ie .jpg or .bmp etc etc.

[photokev43]

Originally Posted by Mark43

Hi Kev and welcome to WAB.

Click on manage attachments and another window will open allowing you to browse your pc for a pic or one from an online url.

This will also give you the file sizes allowed for whichever type of pic you are uploading ie .jpg or .bmp etc etc.

Thanks for the info Mark but unfortunately the other window does NOT open. It just 'flashes' and then disappears. I've attached photos to BBC Wales Nature and Surfing websites similar to this WAB website and not get this problem.
All 4 posting rules say I 'may'.
Kevin

[photokev43]

Clicked a few times on the 'paperclip' attachment icon a few times, eventually attachment window opened and here we have finally the Hairy Caterpillar approx 6cms long, found on the coastal path on Manorbier cliffs Pembrokeshire. A lot of Common Blue and a Large Skipper Butterflies photographed in area at the same time.
Many thanks for any info on the caterpillar and also what is its staple food please?
Brgds
Kevin

[Wild-Woman]

Looks like an Oak Eggar-Lasiocampa quercus. As always get that it looked at again by one of the forum experts, I'm not!! ww

[Oy]

Yep - pretty sure that's Oak Eggar.

Here's one I took recently...

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/ga...age-10206.html

[photokev43]

Thanks Wild Woman and Oy. Have not managed to access Oy link but on another website Link here:- http://ukmoths.org.uk/show.php?id=425 could also be a Fox Moth larva. Both larva are possible for where found -Cliff tops at Manorbier, plenty Heather - Gorse - Bramble. Found middle of the day lying on the cliff path so unable to identify its food plant.
Kevin

[photokev43]

Accessed your link Oy and had another look at my series of pictures. Colour cast can change at a different angle of taking the picture. Your link and one of my other pictures, the second one was after I put the caterpillar on some gorse (not knowing its food plant) and the sheen changes colour from brown to a much lighter colour more comparable to your link.
Kevin

[photokev43]

Here it is, message for this post from previous msg from me earlier.
Kevin

[kness]

Hello kev and Oy and others......have found this caterpillar on a quince bush in Luxembourg! I'd say it's not the Fox caterpillar, mine had more white bits on the side like kev's photo. Is that one definitely an oak eggar then? If so, what does the moth look like?