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.

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

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 ...

Texans enjoying state parks and the outdoors are warned to avoid the Southern Flannel Moth caterpillar—its venomous hairs can ...

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 ...

A: They’re also called puss caterpillars, and almost any general ... I have a weekend retreat in Northeast Texas. Could I keep it in bounds if I used pieces of fiberglass as edging?

In North Carolina it is usually the “woolly slug,” in Texas it is often “woolly worm,” and in between it may be the puss caterpillar, possum bug, or Italian asp. In Mexico it becomes el ...

As explained by Wizzie Brown, integrated pest management specialist at Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Services, fuzzy black caterpillars — also known as woollybear caterpillars — typically ...