The colourful animal in this video, feeding on a coniferous tree, is a caterpillar of the pine hawk-moth.
Henk Dikkema from the Netherlands made the video.
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Beautifully filmed. What goes in must come out:)
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True 🙂 Remarkable, how colourful this caterpillar is and how relatively monochromous it will become as an adult moth 🙂
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