One of the more strange-looking caterpillars (Calliteara pudibunda) 🐛
TIL that this moth is named, in Dutch, after Maria Sybilla Merian (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Sibylla_Merian): "Meriansborstel" (literally "Merian’s brush”).
And my wife told me that her grandmother wrote a book about her (in Dutch): https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/de-vlindervrouw/1001004001513115/
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