Every year I find a one or two saddleback caterpillars in our yard. These cute-looking little guys aren’t big – they can get to be a little over 1-inch long – but they have a very ...

The saddleback is the larval stage of the slug moth. It is also a urticating caterpillar with two types of venom. One venom is hemolytic that breaks down red blood cells and the other is a ...

The saddleback caterpillar is not as innocent as it looks. ... There are two fleshy, tufted horns at the front and end of the caterpillar. But while it may be as cute as a button, ...

JasonOndreicka / Getty Images. The beautiful saddleback caterpillar is native throughout the eastern United States. Identified by the brown saddle-shaped spot on its back, the saddleback is also ...

A saddleback metamorphoses into a nondescript, brown moth, but a puss caterpillar becomes an oddly beautiful, hairy moth called a flannel moth. The moth’s hairs are not venomous like those of ...

Saddleback Caterpillar Gerald J. Lenhard, Louisiana State Univ / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY 3.0 US The slug moth, or Acharia stimulea , is cutest in its larvae stage, when it's known as the quirky ...

Four significant stinging caterpillars live in Florida: the saddleback caterpillar, puss caterpillar, io moth caterpillar and hag caterpillar. By the names of them, they sound pretty bad. They do n… ...

Saddleback Caterpillar has a stout, brown body about an inch long with a bright green rectangle and an oval saddle marking on its back. The rectangle and saddle are outlined with white.

This is a saddleback caterpillar, and they are one of our handful of species possessing irritating or stinging hairs or hollow spines on their body. Skip to content. All Sections.

His post wasn’t of a puss caterpillar, but two saddleback ... end up having a miserable night after handling those “cute” little caterpillars because it sure didn’t look like he ...