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Can anyone identify a caterpillar(?) for me. I've asked around my allotments and a few people have seen them but don't recognise the type.

The beastie was about 1 1/2 inches long and a bit over 1/8th inch wide, so quite small. Markings were alternating black/bright yellow hoops.

Any ideas?

this the beastie DFV?

http://tinyurl.com/qpg2w

Welcome to the vine.

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It looks very close - I remember it being a bit more yellow (rather than orange), but as I've got quite a lot of ragwort near my plot, the habitat seems to fit.
Thanks Nick

Some of them are yellow rather than Orange. It's probably a variant of the cinibar moth. If you've got ragwort on your plot you are supposed to cut it down as if it spreads to pasture land it's poisonous to livestock. I used to have to help mt friiend once a year go around & spray all the ragwort to kill it off incase his lambs ate it.

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