The asp or puss caterpillar is the most common species of stinging caterpillar in the Houston area, according to the Texas ...

Texas A&M AgriLife experts warn of stinging caterpillars as weather warms, what you should know about their venom, and how to identify one.

While Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona have the most ... the insect contains stinging venomous spines. The ASP caterpillar is yellow or gray to reddish-brown and at the larval stage of the Southern ...

The puss is the caterpillar form of the small, harmless southern flannel moth. You can find it from Maryland to the Deep South and west to Texas. The puss is also called the asp or asp caterpillar ...

As temperatures warm up Extension Service experts urge Texans to stay alert for stinging caterpillars. These fuzzy, or ...

(Mix 93-1) With warmer temperatures across Texas, more and more Texans are getting out ... This harmless-looking creature is commonly called an asp or puss caterpillar, and it could leave you with a ...

With school out for the summer and rising temperatures in the Killeen-Fort Cavazos area, families spend more time outdoors, ...

These are pests of the cool, wet times of spring and early summer. They hang out in moist, mulched beds and they come out to ...

The caterpillar was first spotted in Texas by a citizen scientist just south of Houston in 2017. The intruder, which likely arrived from Florida in gusts of high-atmospheric wind, has expanded ...