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sure looks like one,  do the hairs sting if touched?

In the meantime I will stick my fingers in the plug socket to see if the power is on.

You were not suggesting he checks are you?

Those things are stinging caterpillars and if they touch your skin, good chance of getting a reactive red rash to go with it for a few days.

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My GF always tells me not to touch these caterpillars as the hairs are quite irritable if they touch your skin. Havent seen many yellow coloured ones but plenty of black haired ones. Not sure what kind of moth or butterfly they change into.

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When I was a freshy to Asia I wore my shirts as I always did in Europe within the trouser waistband. After my first and extremely painful encounter with a hairy caterpillar like this, fallen from a tree, I understood why the natives wear it outside ... Lesson learnt ...

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As posters pointed out, fuzzy catepillars are literally irritating. Their "fuzz" are tiny barbed needles that with just the lightest touch will penetrate the skin and remain there. The rash and irritation and itch can last for days.

I had close to 100 different yellow ones, if not more, in one tree about 2 years ago. Before that and since then, I have only seen one or two. But seem to get many really fuzzy ones like your picture every year (many being in the 20s).

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