Yellowish caterpillar for ID

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Dec 26, 2013

This must have fallen from the almond tree under which I was doing some work. Which is this?

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Dec 26, 2013

It's a tussock moth caterpillar in the family Lymantriidae - see http://www.flickr.com/photos/dinesh_valke/3825981898/ for another example (obviously, not the same species as yours).

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Dec 27, 2013

I took this on 15th Dec. Are these eggs of the same? That is the leaf of the almond tree. Notice one egg on the left.

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Flapdoodle Minot, ND Dec 27, 2013

Possible, but egg masses of these moths usually are not so linear or so densely hair-covered...

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Dinu Mysore, India(Zone 10a) Dec 28, 2013

They had hatched I think when I examined again after posting that. I also checked google images and saw something similar in one image with hair-covers.

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