They are now 10 days old and as you can see they finally have their stripes, not quite as brightly striped as they eventually become but definitely striped now.
They have travelled quite a way up the ragwort plant as most of them are now situated right at the top amongst the flower buds.
We have spotted quite a few of these vapourer moth caterpillars on our nature walks all usually in the same area, although they often have very slight colour variations of the tufts on their backs.
We also got to creep up on this small tortoiseshell butterfly as it was feeding on a flower, very beautiful markings.
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