Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Tiger Moth caterpillar?, 1 by philomel

philomel wrote:
This huge (c. 3") caterpillar looks very like the Garden/Great Tiger Moth (Arctia caja) http://www.garypoyner.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/wildlife/garden_t...
but the colours seem to be reversed. This one has the burnt orange colour down its back and the dark hairs overlayed with long pale grey ones on its sides, whereas in the Garden Tiger they are the other way round.
I found three specimens while gardening this afternoon. They were hidden under strawberry plants and they were near Santolina and lots of couch grass :(
When disturbed they hid behind some masonry.

I do hope someone can identify them. I've Googled for them with no success so far.