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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
(22,822 posts)kimbutgar
(22,868 posts)Xavier Breath
(4,760 posts)Would you call that a pussnado?
EndlessWire
(7,159 posts)duncang
(3,153 posts)Here in Texas Ive heard them called asps. I may have heard them called different things but that stuck out with me since Ive always thought of asps as snakes.
rockbluff botanist
(323 posts)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
(187 posts)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.