I found this one on the underside of a small table on our deck. Another spikey critter, brightly colored and rather formidable looking. And it's #11 on the list of the world's top fifteen poisonous caterpillars, although I cannot vouch for the veracity of that list.*
It is also on this somewhat more believable list, and thus it is not something to be trifled with. And I certainly wasn't going to touch it. So after taking a few photos let it go about its business.
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* Especially when you read things like this there: "The puss caterpillar is widespread in the Southern states, including New Jersey, Arkansas, Florida, and Texas." Notwithstanding the geographical inaccuracy, Wagner, in Caterpillars of Eastern North America, has the range of this species ending in Maryland. And that's not the only questionable bit. Hmmm ...
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