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« on: Jul 12th, 2003, 1:37am »
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Hey guys......has anyone ever been bit by a ......ummmm......fuzzy lill catipillar ?? I got bit yesturday by one crawlin up my shirt and swatted at it......bit me in the neck......got a welt the size of a golf ball on my neck and a horrible rash (I'm the rash queen anyhow)......it was a canary yellow one with fuzzy long black long hair horns on each end. Freaked me out....so let this be a warning to you all.........attack of the killer catipillars....beware !!!! It packed a mean wallup I must say ! Course this shit only happens to me.......rite ? When wolly worms attack Pam Coots........dont ask me what this has to do with CH cuz I couldn't answer that question........fuzzy wuzzy waz a bear....fuzzy wuzy had no hair.........fuzzy wazzy wasn't very fuzzy waz he ?
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« Reply #1 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 2:06am »
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It probably laid eggs.
 
They will hatch.
 
Fuzzz worms will travel to your brain
 
They will metamorpasize
 
You will have a head full of moths.
 
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« Reply #2 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 5:43am »
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Coots,
   The same thing happened to my daughter, she got hives all over her body, have you tried benadril? , it still seems to be the best for reactions.
 
 
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« Reply #3 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 6:00am »
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Don ........ you are mean and GROSS !!!!!!!!  Trying to scare our cootie like that !!!!!!!!!!!!!!  
 
Coots, do like Paul said, benadryl.  Hope you are feeling better and loose all the lumps, bumps and rashes before the convention !!!!!!!!!!!!!
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« Reply #4 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 7:39am »
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Inch worm, Inch worm, measuring the marigolds.......Cootie! Silly lil fuzzy wuzzies can't do that, ummmm, can they? You sure you're not having pre-convention nerves again? Honey, take the benadryl, it should go away quickly, soooo, if it doesn't puhleeez go the to a doc!!
Hey....ya wanna make me afraid of ALLL the little critters in the world? I sitll had confidence in caterpillars....
Hipe you're better real soon, Coots!
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« Reply #5 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 8:36am »
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Cootie... Yikes.. I didnt know those fuzzballs could bite!
Hope you're feelin better in no time, the Benedryl should help.
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« Reply #6 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 9:06am »
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« Reply #7 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 9:13am »
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Long hair horns on it? Sounds mighty gross to me. I'd be freaking out myself.  
Go buy that benedryl Coots.  
Yuck, yuck, gross.....
 
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« Reply #8 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 9:20am »
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on Jul 12th, 2003, 1:37am, cootie wrote:
fuzzy wuzzy waz a bear....fuzzy wuzy had no hair.........fuzzy wazzy wasn't very fuzzy waz he ?

 
Or today's version,
 Cootie-carrying caterpillars carried cooties to Cootie. Cootied Cootie claimed to be created into first Cootiepillar.
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« Reply #9 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 9:42am »
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Hi Pam.  You were probably not bitten, but rather stung.  Several caterpillar species have evolved hollow urticating hairs which can contain venom.  The most notables that come to my mind are several species in the Family Saturniidae (giant silkworm moths) and the smaller unusual looking saddleback caterpillar (and other species in the Family Limacodidae).  They both live in your neck of the woods and there are probably others:
 
http://www.uky.edu/Agriculture/Entomology/entfacts/misc/ef003.htm
 
http://ag.arizona.edu/urbanipm/insects/stingingcaterpillars.html
 
http://www.forestpests.org/publichealth/StingingC.html
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« Reply #10 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 9:56am »
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Her "NECK" of the woods ?
 
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« Reply #11 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 4:11pm »
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We have Saddlebacks here in Fla.  One of my kids was bitten and boy does it hurt!  He swelled, got a rash and was sick to his stomach.
 
They're now on my vined plants...it's that time of the year, and other than getting near enough to put poison on the plants, we are staying clear of them.
 
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« Reply #12 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 4:13pm »
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Nice boat Donna, does Don know you have it ;D
 
Cutie, I told you to stop eating bugs....LOL
 
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« Reply #13 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 4:24pm »
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Eyes, you took the words right outta my mouth.  Yep there are a few varieties of caterpillar that have poisonous spines.  Benedryl should still help, but if it doesn't get better in a day or two or gets worse, get thee to a doctor.
 
It is best not to touch any caterpillar that has what looks like spines or hair or fur.  (I may be wrong, but I think there is even a species of caterpillar that looked like what we called wooly bears that has poisonous hairs/spines/fur.
 
Ever been bitten by a praying mantis or a grasshopper?  LOL!  No poison, but can definitely let you know they are irritated!
 
Sherry who learned early about "crudapelters"  (That was my first attempt as a child at the word.  My aunt who has a big time fear and loathing of caterpillars (not unlike my fear and loathing of spiders...STEVE!) said that my word was the best word ever for them LOL!)
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« Reply #14 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 5:29pm »
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Holy crap......I didn't realize them things were venomous.......thanx fer the info !!! Yeah I got bit in my necka the woods alright.....by a mangey lookin spiney yuk yellow one......this one had the real long double black hair horn lookin deals at each end only. Prolly was a double headed cootie infested coot biter creepy crawler......swell. My neck looks NASTY...got a solid rash the sizea my hand. Went on a poker run taday and everyone prolly thought I had creepy crude....blahhhh !!! One good rash leads to anuther Pam
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« Reply #15 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 7:25pm »
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Actually, 2 of those links say that Benedryl won't help.  I don't know, I've never been stung by a caterpillar.  Yes Sherry, I've been bitten by a praying mantis... trying to move it to a safer location.  I was surprised.  I was also surprised when I was bitten by a grasshopper, but I deserved that one... I needed him for entomology class.  I think you're right, there are some venomous wooly bear caterpillars.
 
re spiders:  Spiders get free roam of my apartment... any enemies of flies are a friend of mine.  Too bad I don't have any spiders big enough or numerous enough to help control the fucking earwigs that invade at night.
 
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« Reply #16 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 7:33pm »
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I hate spiders.... any kind.... But!!  Out here, we tend to have lots and lots of Black Widows.....
 
Spiders just give me the.... dojfaoiwejrldfohqowejries!!
 
Sherry who when very young saw a large spider running up her blanket toward her face! (stayed under those covers freaking out for what seemed like days)
 
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« Reply #17 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 7:37pm »
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Cootie sorry your hives have been replaced by the caterpillar bite, still could have been worse, could have been that bloody frog again.. ;D
 
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« Reply #18 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 7:37pm »
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Eyes I have an over abundance of spiders here that you are more than welcome to take!!!!
 
Hate those damn arachnids
 
We have black widows and brown recluse here Sherry, joy oh bliss  Undecided
 
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« Reply #19 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 7:44pm »
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I'm sure Sherry has even more brown recluse spiders down there.  I believe they are being accidentally transported to the northeast, someone at work suffered from what I believe to be the bite of a brown recluse.  It ain't pretty.  But really, brown recluse and black widow are the only 2 North American species you have to be careful with.
 
What a great thread you started, Pam  Cheesy
I hope you're feeling better.
 
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« Reply #20 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 8:00pm »
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They're all yours eyes! LOL  I'll catch them all in a bug basket and you can take em home with ya!  Too bad that won't stop them coming around.
 
Yeah I didn't think the brown recluse was native to the northeast, but I have killed 2 of them here, and one girl got bit by one when they were on a field exercise, it had crawled into her sleeping bag.  You're right, it's not pretty.
 
Course, in Germany we had a spider show up in the kitchen that was the size of a small dog hehe
 
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« Reply #21 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 8:09pm »
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Well thanks a lot STEVE!!!!  I didn't need to know THAT!
 
I've been bitten by a spider who's bite was very similar to that of a brown recluse... boy, ya just gotta love that necrotic tissue eh?  Takes literally years to completely heal.
 
And Cat..... I ain't NEVER goin' to Germany now!!!
 
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« Reply #22 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 8:14pm »
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LOL Sherry!  You should have seen me, I was only over visiting Clark while he was stationed there.  He called out, "don't come in the kitchen" .. so of course I went in the kitchen.  Saw this tarantula size spider (looked like a wolf spider) and screamed and it ran under the stove.  I jumped on the table and refused to get down til it was dead LOL
 
Clark was spraying it with raid and I told him to step on it, his reply was "Fuck no!!!  It will eat my foot!" LOL
 
Just stay in a hotel and not a house where they have the chance to live and grow, and grow, and grow.... hehe
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« Reply #23 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 8:19pm »
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ROTFLMFAO!!
 
I can definitely relate!  
 
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« Reply #24 on: Jul 12th, 2003, 8:39pm »
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Sherry, that may have been a brown recluse bite.
 
Cat, you should see the size of the spiders in Puerto Rico.  Big enough to eat the coquis (frogs).
 
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