Calliteara pudibunda - Young caterpillar

Jeanette found this caterpillar on her Medlar tree (Mespilus germanica) and kept it in a box for me to photgraph later that night. Meantime, before I had a chance to shoot images, it had moulted into the next stadium (the old skin is on the left behind it).
Even in its new jumpsuit, it is still a very young caterpiller though, with nothing of the big paintbrush-like tufts of hair that are so conspicuous on the older caerpillars - just very, very long single hairs going of in all directions :o)