# What was this creature I saw?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-creature-i-saw/364108
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [July 12, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-creature-i-saw/364108 "2006-07-12T00:41:42Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Feces\_Of\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feces_Of_Death)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2006, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-creature-i-saw/364108/1 "2006-07-12T00:41:42Z")
I saw this weird caterpillar like thing…it was a fuzzy off white, at the front had 2 orange anntenna like a V, and at the back the same anntenna except they were bright white. What could it bed?
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### Author:  [@Carlyjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carlyjay)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-creature-i-saw/364108/2 "2006-07-12T00:50:14Z")
> [@Feces Of Death](#):
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> I saw this weird caterpillar like thing…it was a fuzzy off white, at the front had 2 orange anntenna like a V, and at the back the same anntenna except they were bright white. What could it bed?
A hairy hunk like that could bed any worm he fancied.
…sorry… couldn’t resist!
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### Author:  [@TheBoneyKingofNowhere](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheBoneyKingofNowhere)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2006, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-creature-i-saw/364108/3 "2006-07-12T00:55:54Z")
> [@Carlyjay](#):
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> A hairy hunk like that could bed any worm he fancied.
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> …sorry… couldn’t resist!
Feces of Death?
Hmm… was it about the size of a caterpillar? Cause if it was, I’d say caterpillar, but if it was the size of a car, well, I’d just be worried.
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### Author:  [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2006, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-creature-i-saw/364108/4 "2006-07-12T02:20:50Z")
If it was fuzzy, it was a moth caterpillar. For a more precise answer, I need to know where (geographically) you saw it, where (location, such as on what type of plant) you saw it, and better measurements.
Or it was a larval chtorr.
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### Author:  [@Feces\_Of\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feces_Of_Death)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2006, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-creature-i-saw/364108/5 "2006-07-12T02:32:33Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> If it was fuzzy, it was a moth caterpillar. For a more precise answer, I need to know where (geographically) you saw it, where (location, such as on what type of plant) you saw it, and better measurements.
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> Or it was a larval chtorr.
In North Carolina, on my porch. It was about 1.25 inch
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### Author:  [@peri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peri)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2006, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-creature-i-saw/364108/6 "2006-07-12T03:08:08Z")
Did it look like [this](http://www.pestcontrolcanada.com/Questions/white%20caterpillar.jpg)? It’s the larva of a Tussock moth, Family Lymantriidae. Someone else will have to identify it as to species.
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2006, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-creature-i-saw/364108/7 "2006-07-12T03:10:59Z")
> [@DrFidelius](#):
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> Or it was a larval chtorr.
I thought most of our kind we’re gone…
You sir, are a gentleman (assumed) and a scholar (no doubt).
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### Author:  [@Feces\_Of\_Death](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Feces_Of_Death)
#### Post date: [July 12, 2006, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-was-this-creature-i-saw/364108/8 "2006-07-12T03:16:49Z")
> [@peri](#):
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> Did it look like [this](http://www.pestcontrolcanada.com/Questions/white%20caterpillar.jpg)? It’s the larva of a Tussock moth, Family Lymantriidae. Someone else will have to identify it as to species.
thanks, that was it