What in the world is this?
Imagine finding this furry little fellow hanging around your back door.
Linda Park came across him at her home in Bicton, near Shrewsbury.
But with his front pincers and tail 'like a scorpion', she had never seen anything like him before.
"At first and thought it was just something that had splattered across the glass so I went out with a cloth to wipe it off and it curled its tail around at me just like a scorpion.
"In all my years, I have never seen anything like that. It looks like an earwig but bigger with two back legs and its body is red and black and furry.
"There are five white bobbles up its back, like pom poms. It is about an inch long."
According to experts at the Shropshire Wildlife Trust the mystery insect is a the caterpillar of a species of tussock moth called The Vapourer Orgyia antiqua.
A trust spokesman said it was "an unusual species in many ways. The males fly during the day.
"The females are virtually wingless, an attribute normally associated with winter-emerging species, but the adults are out from July to September, sometimes October in the south.
"The female lays her eggs on what remains of the pupal cocoon, which then overwinter.
"When hatched, the very hairy caterpillars feed on a range of deciduous trees and shrubs.
"The species is fairly common, especially in suburban habitats, over much of Britain, but more so in the south," he added.
