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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!

Hi Deborah,

That's one of the Burnet Moth larvae

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!

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.

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

Guy