When it comes to caterpillars, do you have goosebumps in your heart? Don't be afraid, Xiaobian takes you to understand these common caterpillars, and after familiarization, your fear is no longer there!
1. Saddleback worm
A common spiny caterpillar, its burrs are highly poisonous, but the shape and color with strong resolution make it difficult to hide. It is only 1 inch long, with a raised dark brown part at both ends, and a sunken green part in the middle, and the shape looks like a saddle.
2. Cat caterpillar
After being stung by this caterpillar, it is like being stung by a bee, and the pain will quickly increase, like pain to the bone. How much pain it will be depends on where you've been stabbed and how many thorns have stuck into your skin. People who have been stabbed in the hand say that the pain can reach the shoulder and can last up to 12 hours.
3. Spicy seeds
Aliases green thorn moth, green thorn moth, yellow edge green thorn moth, four-point thorn moth, curved green thorn moth, etc., commonly known as itchy spicy. It is widely distributed, almost throughout the country. Adults are 15 to 16 mm long, have a wingspan of 36 to 40 mm, and are green in body.
4. Spiny caterpillars
More common in green foliage. Eat leaves. Hairy and stinging-prone. There are many common species, such as flattened, prismatic (pictured), etc., mostly spiny moth larvae. It has grown in large quantities on shrubs and ailanthus plants such as purple locust in northern summer and autumn.
5. Live spicy seeds
The larvae are brightly colored, and people will be stung when they touch the poisonous spiny hairs on the insect, and cause a rash, and there will be pain, itching, spicy, spicy, numb, hot and other sensations after being punctured, which can be accompanied by long-term swelling. Wounds can still cause pain when touched.
6. Green thorn moth
Hosts include tea, pear, persimmon, jujube, mulberry, camellia oleifera, tung oil, apple, mango, walnut, coffee, locust, etc. The larvae feed on the leaves, and the young larvae feed on the epidermis or leaf flesh, resulting in translucent, dry yellow patches. The older larvae eat leaves in a relatively straight and lacking shape, and severely eat the leaves until only the leaf veins are left, or even the leaf veins are completely absent.
7. Wavy hairs
Distributed in northeast China, Hebei, Shandong, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang and other places. There are also foreign countries. It is used in hemp, mulberry, tea, apple, pear, peach, plum, apricot, cherry, hawthorn, begonia, jujube, wild jujube, persimmon, pomegranate, chestnut, walnut, citrus, elm and other fruit trees; as well as medicinal plants, flowers, etc. Nibble on the leaves.