Whiskers

3 years 1 week ago #715043 by Pitter


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3 years 1 week ago #715065 by peterock33
Good title.  He's got a lot of them.... I bet they'd tickle.


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3 years 1 week ago #715084 by Pitter
The "hairs" of this kind of caterpillar are actually a defense mechanism. They have toxic glands at their base and the tips break easily allowing the venom to be injected into what ever touches them.  There is one species, Lonomia obliqua whose venom can actually be fatal.


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3 years 1 week ago - 3 years 1 week ago #715085 by Screamin Scott
Do you know the species of this caterpillar? Where is it native to? I ask because I don't think this is one of the venomous ones. The one you mentioned is venomous but it is located in South America.  I shoot lots of caterpillars and several are venomous but their spines look radically different. Here is a link to the ones I have images of. Of these, the Puss caterpillar is the most venomous here in North America... I have raised all of these to the moth stage.

www.flickr.com/search/?user_id=57915950%...erpillars&view_all=1

Scott Ditzel Photography

www.flickr.com/photos/screaminscott/

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3 years 1 week ago #715094 by db3348
You have captured the texture and colours well,  Pitter . 
I'll definitely stay a safe distance from these guys if I'm ever in Colombia .


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3 years 6 days ago #715177 by Suni Park
I can feel the whiskers just by watching it. Nice details. 


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3 years 3 days ago #715474 by Pitter
Screamin this was at my home in Colombia and the caterpiller is native to this neck of the woods. I was nailed by one similar as I brushed by a low branch. The pattern of the animal was visible on my leg in purple for two months. Also stung big time when it happened.


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3 years 2 days ago #715545 by Paul Iddon
Always loved hairy ones  :)

Paul.


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