What is a brown hairy caterpillar with white hairs found in south of England?

Question

Does it turn into a moth or a butterfly and can it be an irritant?

Answer 1

Moth caterpillars are usually have more hair.

Answer 2

Good you have found my Henry.

Answer 3

Its liable to be a motgh because they use all their hairs to make a cocoon and butterfiles make chrysalises. ye it propbably wil irritate your skin because the hairs are deliberately their to annoy pesky creatures who stare at them and write about them on the internet.

Answer 4

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