Eye On Nature

In a mature garden on the Hill of Howth I saw a canary-yellow "hairy molly" caterpillar with black bands and an upright tuft …

In a mature garden on the Hill of Howth I saw a canary-yellow "hairy molly" caterpillar with black bands and an upright tuft of red hairs at its tail

- Paula O'Kelly, Howth Road, Sutton

It was the caterpillar of the Pale Tussock moth and was once called the Hop-Dog from its appetite for that plant.

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