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When smaller they are black but change colour as instars occur. Colours can vary from pale grey to black. They have two opposing rows of soft fleshy spines along their back, the central pair being bright yellow. In larger caterpillars all the spines, except the yellow ones, are tipped with an orangey red colour.
