# Poisonous caterpillars

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [August 16, 2004, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poisonous-caterpillars/260121 "2004-08-16T19:18:15Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 28, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/poisonous-caterpillars/260121/21 "2016-10-28T01:19:29Z")

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Hi there. I’m a Trinidadian native. Yesterday i was hiking in the deep forest in the Nothern range and stumbled across this caterpillar. It is said to be a moth. The flannel moth. It also looks dangerous

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