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WTB,
I’ve visited your site many times just to look through all of the interesting photos. My dad had me handling all types of insects and reptiles by the time I was a toddler so I don’t have any problems having them around me. I try not to kill any bugs that I find around my house and yard unless they become destructive. This past weekend I was working in my garden under a large oak tree when I came across an unusuall bug that I’ve never seen before. I don’t think it was dead even though it didn’t move once when I picked up the leaf it was on, not even when I gently nudged it with a twig. It was about half an inch long at best guess, didn’t have any spines on it, and the color in the attached picture is accurate. I posted the picture on a garden forum site and some of the guesses posted were Plumbago or Zebra Blue (Leptotes plinius), spiny oak-slug caterpillar (Euclea delphinii), and a mealybug. I looked up all of them on the internet but couldn’t find any pictures that really matched the bug I found. What do you think it might be? Thank you,
Kara Ericson

Hi Kara,
This is a Slug Moth Caterpillar without a common name. It is Isa textula and it does sting.

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