What is this bug please? With cute bug pics!

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Can anyone help identify my bug please? Found him in the back yard and he's super fancy and furry but doesn't appear in my bug identification book anywhere.

He has four little brushes sticking out of his back, never seen anything quite like it!
Any help would be greatly appreciated thank you.

(I did release the actual bug back into the wild earlier, these are just pics in case anyone is concerned)

It looks like a Rusty Tussock Moth caterpillar. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orgyia_antiqua

They're beautiful but I hope that you didn't touch it.

I envy you your caterpillar. I love bugs and caterpillars but I haven't seen one as beautiful as that before.

In person I mean.

Ooh yes, that's him! Thank you @PineappleSeahorse!
No, I'm wary of hairy caterpillars/ random hairy bugs so didn't touch him, just used the lid of the magnifying box to tip him in to have a closer look before releasing him.
He is very beautiful, I feel quite honoured! 🐛

(He or she, I'm just going with he for some reason)

Out of interest, what happens if you do touch them? The wiki link mentions "toxins" but not sure of the effect on humans?

Aw s/hes so cute..

Anyone know what this bug is?

That's a beetle justasking

That specimen will probably just irritate your skin like touching nettles or poison ivy. Some can cause a severe rash, vomiting and dizziness or breathing difficulties.

I know that but what kind of beetle, it was so beautiful

Thanks again @PineappleSeahorse for your wisdom. I hope my little DS heeds my warning about furry bugs in case we come across him or his friends again. Unfortunately, two year olds touch most things!

I want to say a green dock beetle.

Very pretty beetle @justasking111, looks like a broach!

How big was it?

Some furry caterpillars can cause a rash if you touch them, others (like the caterpillar of the oak processionary moth) shed the hairs, they are incredibly fine and even going near a tree infested with them is harmful to human health - inhaling the hairs can cause breathing difficulties.

Lovely shiny beetle by the way - I think it might be a mint leaf beetle.

You can't stop toddlers from being toddlers unfortunately but hopefully he won't encounter any more.

Beetle looks like a rosemary beetle, they change colour and are metallic looking. Pretty but they devastate rosemary and lavender and have no natural predators.

I spend a fair bit of the summer picking them off my lavenders and sadly, having to squish them or there will be no lavender for the bees.

One of the lavender farm gives children jars to collect them in as they use no pesticides.

The green beetle is a rose chafer I think!

The other day I saw some damselflies. I couldn’t work out what they were and thought ‘dragonflies?’ Then I saw a board listing the local wildlife. They were very pretty.

The beetle is a green dock beetle.

I've got a brilliant identification app, you upload your photo or a screenshot and it comes up with a list of possibilities of what it can be, listed in order of likeliness. It identifies animals and plants - can we name apps on here?

Justasking111 I think it is a green dock beetle too, the other common green jewel-like beetle I know is a rose chafer but the antennae aren't clubbed as far as I can tell. I love beetles!!!

Here you go likethebattle