This yellow, black & white caterpillar was spotted in a Lavender Bush in the second week of May and I quickly took a photo with my pocket camera which turned out to be poor. I went back the next day to take a better photo, but it had disappeared. I failed to identify the species from the photo and forgot about it.
Then two days ago, to my surprise, I came across this beautiful Scarlet Tiger Moth sitting on the brick wall adjacent to the Lavender. Checking photos of moths and their caterpillars on-line, I am pretty certain that the lost caterpillar became this wonderful moth.
Not wishing to disturb the moth, I did not get to properly photograph the bright red lower wings, a small flash can just be glimpsed in my photo.
