What is this Caterpillar?

[monkeywrench]

I just found this in my Guinea pigs cage, does anyone know what it is? I am going to assume it was in the lettuce this morning which has come from Spain because the piggies are inside. It's about 2 cm long and smooth.

Aww!

It woke up and wriggled a bit, more like 3 cm long I would say.....

Looks like some sort of moth caterpillar rather than a butterfly one.
Possibly Galleria mellonella, commonly wax worm, that are pretty widespread in Europe.

I have just looked at pictures of that online and I don't think it's that because they seem much creamier beige coloured. This is really quite orange and green, like from a cantaloupe melon

Could it be this?

I don't think so either, it's really orange at the head end and becomes greener. Its definitely 2 colours.

I don't know whether to keep it and feed it or put it outside!!! It really depends what its going to turn into!

Cabbage worm. Could be a different colour depending on where it is in it's lifecycle

From that picture it looks a little like it, but I have seen them before in the garden and really didn't think it was one. The colour is really odd on this one.

Orange luna moth caterpillar?

Can I join in? This dropped out of an oak tree onto my leg in early august and I’m still very curious to know what it is. (That’s not my leg, I very quickly ushered off my leg.)

That was pretty much my reaction. There might also have been noise. (From me, not @Mutant Enormo-Caterpillar.)

But I am pretty sure that was an oak processional Caterpillar and they are toxic and causes rashes and worse

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I don't think it's the luna moth they seem much fatter. I have noted mine has 4 pairs of legs in its middle area

Monkey yours might be some kind of vapourer moth.

@WarmSausageTea Could yours have been a Vapourer Moth Caterpillar? www.forestresearch.gov.uk/research/native-species-that-may-be-mistaken-for-oak-processionary-moth/vapourer-moth-orgyia-antiqua/

Crikey, thanks, monkey.

Sorry I meant Sausage as the vapourer caterpillar.

Monkey yours might be one of the Angle Shades - native to UK and they overwinter as caterpillars.

Will0wtree possibly... that one looks very much the same, albeit more colourful. Maybe that’s a male/female thing?

To be fair, it had a certain magnificence, but I wouldn’t be sorry not to encounter it again. Or it’s bigger, scarier parent.

Is it an angle shades moth caterpillar?

I think it’s an Angle Shades caterpillar too. I get them in the greenhouse sometimes, but they’re usually brownish.

@monkeywrench, yours could be a Dot moth and @WarmSausageTea, your is probably a Vapourer moth. 🙂

Thank you, @Horsemad