Puss caterpillar

[EndlessWire]

A venomous caterpillar lives in Florida, and I'm guessing it got flung around during the hurricane.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13952665/Florida-caterpillar-deadly-poison.html

I have never heard of this creature before. We can put it on the list of reasons why you don't want to live in Florida.

[Midnight Writer]

1. Turn Trump lose on them. He'll grab them all.

[kimbutgar]

2. Another reason out of more than a thousand to never move to Florida!

[Xavier Breath]

3. Flung around in a hurricane, eh?

Would you call that a pussnado?

[EndlessWire]

5. Yes I would! n/t

[duncang]

4. I'm pretty sure they are across all the southern states.

Here in Texas I’ve heard them called asps. I may have heard them called different things but that stuck out with me since I’ve always thought of asps as snakes.

[rockbluff botanist]

6. That's only one of many

As a field botanist in Florida, I was in the woods most of my professional life. Spent A little time in the lab and herbarium, too. I have been stung twice by these little monsters. Both times, they dropped from oak trees.

We are the home of dozens of stinging caterpillars. I left a link below.



https://leafyplace.com/venomous-caterpillars/

[vanamonde]

7. I remember seeing these in Texas

as a child in the 50's. My father called them asps. I don't remember being stung by them. Probably because my father told us, in no uncertain terms, not to touch them.