WVUforREDSKINS Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Remember that story someone posted a few days back about that women who touched a caterpillar and had to go to the hospital? Is this one of them? I just saw this in my yard. It looked like it had spikes like a porcupine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reic Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 wow, mega pixels are your friends Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 I'm not sure what kind of caterpillar that is. Although, generally speaking, there are some things you can guess. The red stripe coloration would seem like a warning color, and spikes on caterpillars generally can be defenses and can cause irritation (itching, swelling, etc.). I doubt it's deadly though unless you are particularly allergic and have a severe anaphylactic response. The caterpillar that hospitalized the woman in the other story is completely different: http://www.bugsinthenews.com/puss_caterpillar_092602.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUforREDSKINS Posted September 18, 2008 Author Share Posted September 18, 2008 ahh cool. I thought it was a story you posted China. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FanboyOf91 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 I'm not sure what kind of caterpillar that is. Although, generally speaking, there are some things you can guess. The red stripe coloration would seem like a warning color, and spikes on caterpillars generally can be defenses and can cause irritation (itching, swelling, etc.). I doubt it's deadly though unless you are particularly allergic and have a severe anaphylactic response.The caterpillar that hospitalized the woman in the other story is completely different: http://www.bugsinthenews.com/puss_caterpillar_092602.htm The toxin usually , but not always, produces an immediate onset of excruciating, unrelenting pain, radiating to the lymph nodes in the armpit or groin, and then to the chest. China, you never cease to amaze. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Destino Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Yes. EVERYBODY PANIC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reic Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 If I were you, i'd make sure to touch it to find out for us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUforREDSKINS Posted September 18, 2008 Author Share Posted September 18, 2008 If I were you, i'd make sure to touch it to find out for us. Only one way to find out right? BRB..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stophovr6 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Yes.EVERYBODY PANIC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raub Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 There's a large, out-of-focus caterpillar roaming around! Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 you should eat it and if it doesnt kill you then you have your answer.. and if it does kill you it wont matter what the answer was anyways.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stophovr6 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 Don't let their speed deceive you. Anything that can mutate must have the technology to teleport as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HogNose Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 [/you should eat it and if it doesnt kill you then you have your answer..and if it does kill you it wont matter what the answer was anyways.. That might be my new signature quote "You should eat it and if it doesnt kill you then you have your answer.. and if it does kill you it wont matter what the answer was anyways." -BigMike - 2008 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bang Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 I stepped on a spiky caterpillar in my backyard a few years back and it hurt like a wasp sting. I thought I had stepped on a bee, so I expected to see it fly out, or be laying there when I lifted my foot. The damn caterpillar was camouflaged and besides, I'm looking for a bee that I now think flew out, so I put my foot back down on it again. Pain was shooting up my leg. It left about 9 little hair-thin barbs in my foot that I could not get out,, they were so thin the tweezers I had could not grasp them. Not to mention the awkward angle I had to hold my foot to use big magnifying lens I needed to just be able to see them. (This was when I was a single dad,, so there was no one around to help me get them out. ) The pain got worse as the day went on, VERY uncomfortable.. and it was sore for four or five days,, mostly because I still couldn't get the barbs out. I think 3 or 4 of them might still be in there. I went back outside and spotted the thing up on a chair about 2 feet away from where i stepped on it. It had to be it, nasty looking thing with spikes sticking out of it every which way. I don't walk around barefoot anymore. ~Bang Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skinfan133 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 that looks like a wooly bear caterpillar. they're harmless and fun to hold because they curl up in a little ball when touched. some say you can predict how harsh a winter is going to be from a wooly bears bands and darkness Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THEREALTOR1 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 I stepped on a spiky caterpillar in my backyard a few years back and it hurt like a wasp sting. I thought I had stepped on a bee, so I expected to see it fly out, or be laying there when I lifted my foot. The damn caterpillar was camouflaged and besides, I'm looking for a bee that I now think flew out, so I put my foot back down on it again. Pain was shooting up my leg.It left about 9 little hair-thin barbs in my foot that I could not get out,, they were so thin the tweezers I had could not grasp them. Not to mention the awkward angle I had to hold my foot to use big magnifying lens I needed to just be able to see them. (This was when I was a single dad,, so there was no one around to help me get them out. ) The pain got worse as the day went on, VERY uncomfortable.. and it was sore for four or five days,, mostly because I still couldn't get the barbs out. I think 3 or 4 of them might still be in there. I went back outside and spotted the thing up on a chair about 2 feet away from where i stepped on it. It had to be it, nasty looking thing with spikes sticking out of it every which way. I don't walk around barefoot anymore. ~Bang <Headed outside right now to take a flame thrower to my yard.> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan T. Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 If you get near it, the first sympton is vour vision gets blurry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BigMike619 Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 That might be my new signature quote "You should eat it and if it doesnt kill you then you have your answer.. and if it does kill you it wont matter what the answer was anyways." -BigMike - 2008 its almost chuck norris worthy..lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUforREDSKINS Posted September 18, 2008 Author Share Posted September 18, 2008 It wasn't a wooly bear. Or maybe, its another species of wooly bear. It had several thin red stripes up and down its body. It wasn't fuzzy either, more like spikey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
No_Pressure Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 I found a picture posted somewhere else from a person who was probably asking what the hell it was also. I didn't find an answer but I think this is what it would look like if the picture wasn't really really really really really blurry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WVUforREDSKINS Posted September 18, 2008 Author Share Posted September 18, 2008 ^^^^^^^That looks like it^^^^^^^^^^^ I'm 95% sure that is it. Eyed Tiger moth caterpillar I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hubbs Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 That. Is freaking. Terrifying. Seriously, if I ever saw that near any part of my body I would be out of there like the Flash. Creepy-looking as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt Rich Fla Posted September 18, 2008 Share Posted September 18, 2008 wow, mega pixels are your friends ols I just got sea sick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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