Distinctive looking caterpillar - help please

[Deborah]

Photographed this caterpillar on lichen covered rock on cliff edge at the sea - North Brittany - this morning. A blustery day but it was out in the open. Any help with ID much appreciated - especially if it’s going to send me back there in a couple of months to hopefully spot something special!

[bugboy]

Hi Deborah,

That's one of the Burnet Moth larvae

[Deborah]

Thanks Bugboy! I confess I was hoping for some kind of Lycaenid... but I’ll be going back anyway and will be happy to see whatever’s there!

[bugboy]

You'll like find some blue's at the very least, Burnet moths larvae feed on legumes and share the same habitat of many of them.

[Padfield]

I think that's a five-spot burnet, Zygaena trifolii.

Guy