The caterpillars have colorful bodies and are usually dark-bodied with a red read, two black "hair pencils" projecting forward like antennas, four dense tufts of hair (those are the tussocks) on ...

The infamous tussock moth caterpillar has returned and is taking over Florida. ... They are generally dark bodied with a red head, 2 black "hair pencils" projecting forward like antennae, ...

There have been many sightings of the black fuzzy caterpillars in the recent weeks. ... Woollybear is a term used for several species of caterpillars that are densely covered in hair, or setae.

CHICOPEE, Mass. (WWLP) – These caterpillars look cute and fuzzy but you don’t want to touch them. How a caterpillar outbreak 7 years ago still affects Hampden forest ...

Now it’s stinging caterpillars. As if there wasn’t enough to worry about in 2020, foresters in Virginia are warning that if you see a caterpillar that looks like a wig on a tree, don’t touch it.

SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. – The Florida Department of Health issued an alert for hairy caterpillars. Health officials said the Orgyia leucostigma is also known as the white-marked tussock moth ...

A stinging hair caterpillar can also cause a painful reaction. Leslie Lewis, of New Middletown, says a caterpillar stung her 7-year-old son after he picked it up and carried it around.

Casemaking clothes moth caterpillars can digest human hair and will feed on corpses. But it’s not all bad news, scientists say. Hair bits nipped off of corpses by caterpillars of the casemaking ...

A stinging hair caterpillar can also cause a painful reaction. Leslie Lewis, of New Middletown, says a caterpillar stung her 7-year-old son after he picked it up and carried it around.