Yesterday, very early, as I tidied up and swept my front porch, I noticed a pile of what looked like small trails of ... well... dirt? Only thing was, the pile was slowly moving down the path, like a slinking, slithering blob.
As I honed in on the mass of black, I realized that it was a glob of maybe a hundred black caterpillars, squiggling individually, but moving slowly, grotesquely and neatly as one collective and large mass.
I have to say, this spectacle kind of put me off my feed..
Yes, Taoists and Buddhists, I blasted them with my lethal weapon, an economy size can of Raid. No guilt.
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3 comments:
For a moment in time, I thought Dean Koontz was writing.
Ugh, I've never even heard of such a thing. And...caterpillars...aren't they supposed to be fuzzy and cute? Those are naked.
Hi There,
This is a mass of larvae of the order Hymenoptera, genus Perreyia. Aka Sawfly larvae. They can be poisonous to animals if eaten. The toxins are powerful and unique in biology, so don't let your kids play with/crush these things. They seem otherwise harmless, so best just to let them get on by to wherever they are going!
Yours Aye,
Steven H.
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