Anyone know their insects?

[Jogeephus]

I got a bug on my arm today and it looked sortof like a slug but it was hairy. At first I didn't even recognize it as being anything other than a leaf but it stung me like fire. I knocked it off my arm and its been over 12 hours and my arm is still burning. Anyone know what this slug/caterpillar/bug is called?

 

[Bigfoot]

Probably a saddle back.

 

[skyhightree1]

since we are on bugs can someone tell me what kind of spider this is? its the size of palm of my hand.

 

[Anonymous]

Sky that's a orb weaver
Jo, probably was a saddleback as said. A moth caterpillar that stings like a sob

 

[Craig Miller]

http://0.tqn.com/d/insects/1/0/r/4/-/-/saddleback-caterpillar.jpg

We dont have those here or at least not that I've seen. We have these and you will feel its sting for weeks.
http://www.extension.org/sites/default/files/w/4/42/Caterpillars_02.jpg

 

[Caustic Burno]

Sky that's a orb weaver
Jo, probably was a saddleback as said. A moth caterpillar that stings like a sob

Also called a banana spider in this part of the world

 

[greybeard]

We have a white version of that here, no 'horn' looking appendages tho, just a hairy looking worm anout 1/4" diameter X 1 1/4" long. We just call them an asp. They drop out of oak trees on ya and sting like fire tho.

 

[greybeard]

Sky that's a orb weaver
Jo, probably was a saddleback as said. A moth caterpillar that stings like a sob

Also called a banana spider in this part of the world

They make a tough web too--I've seen them thick across a pathway or opening in the woods. I hate walking into one of their webs. They lay their eggs in a little paper looking pod, usually hanging off a shed or barn down low. I put one in a jar and a few weeks later about a dozen little spiders came crawling out of it.

 

[skyhightree1]

Sky that's a orb weaver
Jo, probably was a saddleback as said. A moth caterpillar that stings like a sob

Thanks hook... It was almost a man killer when I stuck my hand on its web and saw the spider I screamed talk about almost having a heart attack lol

Sky that's a orb weaver
Jo, probably was a saddleback as said. A moth caterpillar that stings like a sob

Also called a banana spider in this part of the world

They make a tough web too--I've seen them thick across a pathway or opening in the woods. I hate walking into one of their webs. They lay their eggs in a little paper looking pod, usually hanging off a shed or barn down low. I put one in a jar and a few weeks later about a dozen little spiders came crawling out of it.

I hate getting in webs going through the woods I normall walk with a stick out in front of me 2 feet so it breaks the web before i get to it.

 

[presmudjo]

I just looked that same spider up last week. It took residence at the end of my back porch. Yellow Garden Orb. Neat to watch. I killed an egg sack. Was going to move the spider until just now I saw it run, grab a love bug, go back to the center of the web and proceed to do whatever it does with its mouth on it! I think it can stay a little while longer. Nothing eats those lovebugs. I wonder if my chickens are eating any?

 

[ALACOWMAN]

since we are on bugs can someone tell me what kind of spider this is? its the size of palm of my hand.

garden spider, i let em hang around, their harmless and eat the other unwanted insects.. infact i transplanted two from my front porch to the barn...

 

[ALACOWMAN]

Sky that's a orb weaver
Jo, probably was a saddleback as said. A moth caterpillar that stings like a sob

sound like it... we've alway called them packsaddles here..http://www.roamschool.com/animals/packsaddle.jpg

 

[brimmer X]

Don't know anything about the worm, but the spider is a garden spider. Lots of gardeners transplant them as Alacowman does. The spider is a little wicked looking, but I find them to be a very attractive in color.

 

[danl]

I go out of the way not to bother garden spiders, the amount of bugs they eat out weigh any aggravation from walking into a web.

We also have some toads that stay around our garage approach, my wife was complaining about all the toad poop and I told her, just think how many bugs it took to make those little poop pellets...

 

[Arnold Ziffle]

Jo, sounds like you had a run in with an "oak asp". They definitely look like a slug and have a grey, hairy exterior. I was climbing a live oak tree when I was a kid and put my forearm on one -- extremely painful! Doctor gave some sort of pill and mom gave me Blue Bell ice cream and a day or two later I was OK again.

 

[TexasBred]

I go out of the way not to bother garden spiders, the amount of bugs they eat out weigh any aggravation from walking into a web.

We also have some toads that stay around our garage approach, my wife was complaining about all the toad poop and I told her, just think how many bugs it took to make those little poop pellets...

Bet I've got a couple dozen around the place. They are catching their share of the grasshoppers. Man they can wrap one up in a heartbeat too.

 

[greybeard]

Jo, sounds like you had a run in with an "oak asp". They definitely look like a slug and have a grey, hairy exterior. I was climbing a live oak tree when I was a kid and put my forearm on one -- extremely painful! Doctor gave some sort of pill and mom gave me Blue Bell ice cream and a day or two later I was OK again.

Who knew Blue Bell was a cure for an asp sting??

 

[ALACOWMAN]

I go out of the way not to bother garden spiders, the amount of bugs they eat out weigh any aggravation from walking into a web.

We also have some toads that stay around our garage approach, my wife was complaining about all the toad poop and I told her, just think how many bugs it took to make those little poop pellets...

Bet I've got a couple dozen around the place. They are catching their share of the grasshoppers. Man they can wrap one up in a heartbeat too.

Its neat the way they work their webs, like grandmaw on a quilt
:cowboy:

 

[danl]

I saw a spider do something about a year ago I didn't know they could or would do. A pretty large brown spider had a web in the corner of my shop door and I had left it alone.

I was standing in the door watching a storm blow up, and when it started lightly raining the spider started taking it's web back up.

I was amazed. it ingested it in a hurry, I don't even know where the web went. but later that night it put it back up..

 

[Anonymous]

Barn spiders will do that. They eat their web each day and build a new one each night.