# Bolivia Bug
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 26, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003 "2009-06-26T00:07:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/1 "2009-06-26T00:07:48Z")
- link opens to youtube.
I want to pick [this caterpillar](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeNggIGSKH8&feature=PlayList&p=A96C552E5A094C25&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=42)up and snuggle it. So, it will probably fuck me up, huh? I’m going to google, 'cause I’m thinkin it is probably poison, and the same fluff that I want to nuzzle is the same fluff that might shoot poison quills in my cheek and neck.
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### Author:  [@supergoose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/supergoose)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/2 "2009-06-26T01:01:50Z")
Aww. I’ve always been partial to fuzzy caterpillars.
Wish they had some object in there to give a sense of size. I was hoping that black metal stand thingie was a shoe, but no go. I’d have loved to see how ginormous a moth or butterfly it would turn into.
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### Author:  [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/3 "2009-06-26T01:10:27Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#):
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> , it will probably fuck me up, huh? I’m going to google, 'cause I’m thinkin it is probably poison, and the same fluff that I want to nuzzle is the same fluff that might shoot poison quills in my cheek and neck.
I’m at work so I can’t see youtube, but yes, some snugly caterpillars = agony caterpillars and the charming [puss caterpillar](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalopyge_opercularis) is apparently aptly named. A pretty list: [http://www.bukisa.com/articles/99170\_the-twenty-most-toxic-caterpillars](http://www.bukisa.com/articles/99170_the-twenty-most-toxic-caterpillars)
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/4 "2009-06-26T01:11:52Z")
Awww. I hate bugs but I like that one.
Here in New York City I saw a cutesy wutsy looking caterpillar. Not that big but very fuzzy and it almost looked like it had a face. Could someone help me ID it?
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/5 "2009-06-26T01:32:04Z")
Oh, he also had a cute round nose.
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### Author:  [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/6 "2009-06-26T01:42:55Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> Oh, he also had a cute round nose.
I’m beginning to think you don’t hate bugs as much as you thought. Test: Tell me what you feel when I show you [this.](http://www.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jumping-spider-eyes-9.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/7 "2009-06-26T01:55:38Z")
That’s a spider!
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### Author:  [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/8 "2009-06-26T02:27:11Z")
Yep, that one will indeed fuck you up. Hands off!
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### Author:  [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/9 "2009-06-26T02:32:16Z")
Both of them were cute.
- **Malleus** , bug-crazy is both senses
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### Author:  [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/10 "2009-06-26T02:55:31Z")
Of course the cutest caterpillar in the world would also be the most dangerous. I do find it’s moth form oddly disturbing, though, [like a tarantula with wings](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Megalopyge_opercularisMPCCP20040714-5799A.JPG/642px-Megalopyge_opercularisMPCCP20040714-5799A.JPG) (the horror!)
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### Author:  [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/11 "2009-06-26T03:10:02Z")
At last, the missing link! This is proof that Carrot Top could have evolved from nature, rather than being the evil scientist creation that my friend insists he is. . . .
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### Author:  [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/12 "2009-06-26T04:21:34Z")
> [@Nzinga\_Seated](#):
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> I’m beginning to think you don’t hate bugs as much as you thought. Test: Tell me what you feel when I show you [this.](http://www.neatorama.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/jumping-spider-eyes-9.jpg)
[He’s just so cute and friendly](http://homepage.mac.com/mactechg4/.Pictures/jumping_spider_grin.jpg)
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### Author:  [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2009, 4:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bolivia-bug/501003/13 "2009-06-26T04:50:24Z")
> [@MacTech](#):
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> [He’s just so cute and friendly](http://homepage.mac.com/mactechg4/.Pictures/jumping_spider_grin.jpg)
I’m scared.