Can anyone identify this lovely 🐛

[Clinicalwaste]

I have been trying to identify this lovely creature that is in my front garden. If anyone knows what it is or knows any websites I can look at to identify it I would be really grateful. I have never seen one like this before.

It’s a hawkish caterpillar. Haven’t got my book to hand so not sure which one, but maybe an elephant hawkmoth caterpillar. Beautiful, beautiful moths- you lucky thing!
I just get cabbage whites

Hawkmoth! DYAC

Wow thank you so much off to google. Will no doubt be a whopper.

Elephant Hawkmoth, lucky you!

Can I hijack? Do you know what this is? It was happily munching on my camellia.

I think it’s a moth called the vapourer.

The bright green one looks like a spicebush caterpillar. And the hairy one possibly a brown tail moth

Thank you

Yes, Vapourer moth.

Turns out I had 2 huge green ones and two brown ones, elephant hawk moths, they are nocturnal and can see colour in the dark. I feel very privileged to have seen them and I don’t mind that they munched through my plants.