A small friend

[HansV]

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[Rudi]

Cute, but way too young for a crew cut IMHO.

[BobH]

Possibly a bit more about caterpillars than you wanted to know can be found here. Careful, all of these are stingers.

[stuck]

Here's one I photographed earlier (in 2011). I think it's a garden tiger moth caterpillar.

Ken
edited to correct a typo (thanks Rudi)

[Rudi]

    
Here's my family and I earlier (in 2006). I think this one is a monster caterpillar?

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Ken, 20111 is not earlier, but VERY MUCH later...

[stuck]

Ken, 20111 is not earlier, but VERY MUCH later...

[stuck]

...a monster caterpillar...

Oooo don't let stuckling1 see this picture. If he'd got that close to a monster machine like that at the age your child looks to be in the photo he'd have been blown away.

Ken
He never grew out of his fascination with big machinery and now he works with the all the giant stuff subsea stuff that brings oil to the surface.

[Rudi]

My son was quite blown away too. We had to drag him away from that truck and not even ice cream would suffice!

[stuck]

...not even ice cream would suffice!

I feel your pain

Ken

[viking33]

Possibly a bit more about caterpillars than you wanted to know can be found here. Careful, all of these are stingers.

Those are some nasty looking caterpillars, Bob. I didn't notice any locations for them? The worst we have here are probably the Gypsy Moth Caterpillars. They don't sting but if handled too much can give you a very irritating , itchy rash. They also wipe out Oak and some Pines, leaving a winter like leafless tree that doesn't always survive.

[Claude]

We've got lost of different caterpillars down under. These, while not actually caterpillars, move in unison when they sense danger, forming wave-like movement which makes the entire colony look like a single living entity, far too big for lunch for a single bird.

Their nickname is spitfire since they spit fluids as another defense mechanism.

[ChrisGreaves]

Here's my family and I earlier (in 2006). I think this one is a monster caterpillar?

Is it my imagination, or is this a dump truck?

[Rudi]

Here's my family and I earlier (in 2006). I think this one is a monster caterpillar?

Is it my imagination, or is this a dump truck?

Not quite Chris; its a MONSTER dump truck.

[BobH]

Possibly a bit more about caterpillars than you wanted to know can be found here. Careful, all of these are stingers.

Those are some nasty looking caterpillars, Bob. I didn't notice any locations for them? The worst we have here are probably the Gypsy Moth Caterpillars. They don't sting but if handled too much can give you a very irritating , itchy rash. They also wipe out Oak and some Pines, leaving a winter like leafless tree that doesn't always survive.

The Crowned Slug was said to be found from Massachusetts to Florida. Another (whose name I could not locate), IIRC, is found from Maine to Florida. Texas seems to have a lot of them but they have to compete with Texas-sized mosquitoes, fire ants, chiggers, ticks, 6 kinds of poisonous snakes, two kinds of poisonous spiders, tarantulas, and armadillos to visit their worst upon us.