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  • From: nottke <nottke1@earthlink.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] caterpillar stings and brown recluse bites too
  • Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 07:27:15 -0400

Donna,
A minor point; while there are several moth caterpillar that have stinging
hairs, I know of no butterfly caterpillars capable of stinging. Can anyone
else verify that?
Jim

>They also like willow trees, and there are a lot of other
>stinging caterpillars in the woods. Most of them make very handsome moths
>and butterflies, I only mind them when I have a row of painful holes in my
>hide.

Jim Nottke
Pfafftown, NC 27040
Hardiness Zone 7A






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