Poisonous Caterpillars That Look Like Bad Wigs Are Popping Up All Over Virginia

[Reality]

Poisonous Caterpillars That Look Like Bad Wigs Are Popping Up All Over Virginia

No matter how cute and fuzzy this critter looks, don't touch it.

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[Rockport]

We call em Asps here in Texass.

 

[catiii]

When I was little in the 60s and we played football and sat and played board games in the yard, we encountered ASPS that looked like that and they lived in junk type trees and indeed feel down into the grass. Junk trees with huge above ground roots and which sprouted multiple trunks that destroyed foundations and with no intrinsic value at all. They'd get us and the pain was unbearable fire that nothing could alleviate. Death to all bugs!

 

[speedkilz88]

Turns into this:

 

[Runwildboys]

Poisonous Caterpillars That Look Like Bad Wigs Are Popping Up All Over Virginia

No matter how cute and fuzzy this critter looks, don't touch it.

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That's a very poorly written article. I miss the days of professional journalism.

 

[Runwildboys]

Turns into this:

They're no longer venomous once the become moths, right?

 

[Reality]

That's a very poorly written article. I miss the days of professional journalism.

I agree and I almost did not post it, but the topic was still interesting enough to warrant it.

Content these days is more about quantity than quality sadly.

 

[Reality]

That's a very poorly written article. I miss the days of professional journalism.

A lot more sources are writing about it now ..
https://newsandrumors.com/caterpillar

 

[Hardline]

We call them Asp here in Texas and I've been stung by them several times clearing out dead tree limbs.
It's the second most painful sting behind a bumblebee.
And I've been stung by red wasp and scorpions.

 

[Runwildboys]

We call them Asp here in Texas and I've been stung by them several times clearing out dead tree limbs.
It's the second most painful sting behind a bumblebee.
And I've been stung by red wasp and scorpions.

At least you don't have to worry about a swarm of them. I've been attacked by basketball sized (actually a bit bigger) nests of hornets on two different occasions.

 

[SlammedZero]

Won't find these in Idaho! Thankfully.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Yuck. The warmer the state, the more weird critters there are. In some ways I'm glad I live in a cold state.

 

[speedkilz88]

They're no longer venomous once the become moths, right?

I'm pretty sure the article says they do have venom.

 

[Runwildboys]

I'm pretty sure the article says they do have venom.

If that's the case, the story should be about flying moths that sting. At least it's easy to avoid a caterpillar!

 

[HeavyBarrel]

Not scary, not in Florida, Louisiana, or Texas

 

[Runwildboys]

I'm pretty sure the article says they do have venom.

I just reread the article, and it says nothing about whether or not they're still venomous after they become moths, and I really think if they were still venomous they'd be sure to mention that.