A caterpillar has venomous spines that can break off and get embedded in your skin if you touch them. They're identifiable by a red-and-white stripe along their bodies.
I reached under a hibiscus tree a couple weeks ago and got stung by this green bad boy. It hurt worse than any bee or jellyfish sting, and was painful and swollen for the whole day.Turns out, it was an Io Moth caterpillar, which has venomous spines that can break off and get embedded in your skin if you touch them. They're identifiable by a red-and-white stripe along their bodies.
I found about 10 of them in the hibiscus. They stayed for a few days, ate half the leaves, then moved along. They morph into brown moths with spots on their wings — camouflage that makes them look like a much bigger owl.I reached out to Andrei Sourakov, a researcher at the McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the Florida Museum of Natural History, to learn more about my backyard critters.
Sourakov said they reproduce with four generations per year in South Florida, compared with just one generation in northern states. "Moths are beautiful and interesting, and the Io Moth is a prime example. So, I hope people do not kill them if they find them in their yards," Sourakov said., Zeus, the god of sky, fell in love with Io, the daughter of the river god Argos. But to protect her from his jealous wife Hera, Zeus turned Io into a cow.Axios on facebook
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