Robert Thompson / Common vapourer moth (Orgyia antiqua) resting on leaf, Connamara, County Galway, Republic of Ireland, September

Robert Thompson / Caterpillar larva of the Common vapourer moth (Orgyia antiqua) Montiaghs Moss NNR, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK

PREMAPHOTOS / Caterpillar larva of Common vapourer moth (Orgyia antiqua) UK

Duncan Mcewan / Caterpillar larva of the Common vapourer moth (Orgyia antiqua) Scotland, UK

David Kjaer / Caterpillar larva of the Common vapourer moth (Orgyia antiqua) UK

Rupert Barrington / Eggs of the Common vapourer moth (Orgyia antiqua) UK

Simon Colmer / Common vapourer moth caterpillar (Orgyia antiqua) on birch leaf, UK

Ingo Arndt / Rusty Tussock Moth (Orgyia antiqua) or Vapourer caterpillar, on leaf

Ingo Arndt / Rusty Tussock Moth (Orgyia antiqua) or Vapourer caterpillar, on leaf

Nigel Cattlin / Vapourer / rusty tussock moth (Orgyia antiqua) caterpillar on a damaged rose leaf, Berkshire, June

Robert Thompson / Vapourer moth (Orgyia antiqua) caterpillar on a leaf, Montiaghs Moss National Nature Reserve, County Antrim, Northern Ireland. July.

Robin Chittenden / Vapourer moth caterpillar (Orgyia antiqua) resting leaf, Norfolk, UK. June.