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Posted: **Aug 20, 2005 9:53 pm**

What a cute caterpillar! Look at this little white furball! Anyone know what it is?

Posted: **Aug 21, 2005 8:30 am**

Nope, but sure is a purdy one

Posted: **Aug 21, 2005 1:42 pm**

I LOVE those - so beautiful

Posted: **Aug 21, 2005 5:41 pm**

Awwwww...I've never seen a pure white caterpiller. How pretty!

Posted: **Aug 21, 2005 9:58 pm**

I don't THINK that's one, but there is a fuzzy white caterpillar that packs a pretty good sting from some of it's spines.

Posted: **Aug 21, 2005 10:12 pm**

We touched him yesterday, and no sting.

I did a search on google, and an albino wooly bear caterpillar came up. That's the closest thing I've found to this guy, and we do have regular wooly bears, so that could be it.

Posted: **Aug 21, 2005 10:14 pm**

Definatelly looks like a wolly bear. Never knew they had albinos.

Posted: **Aug 21, 2005 11:44 pm**

Me either. I don't think they're all that common.

Posted: **Aug 21, 2005 11:59 pm**

I've looked all over the internet, and this is the only site that mentions albino wooly bears:

http://www.robsplants.com/critters/crawlers.php

There's a good picture there. Not sure if it's the same as my little furball, but it could be.

Posted: **Aug 22, 2005 2:16 pm**

whatever it is it's really pretty!

Posted: **Aug 23, 2005 12:40 am**

I don't know either, but it is cute!

Posted: **Aug 23, 2005 2:22 pm**

Wonder what kind of butterfly or moth it becomes ?

John

Posted: **Aug 27, 2009 7:27 pm**

Oh No! This may be cute but it sure is deadly. 3 or 4 days ago I was walking past a large leafy bush (looks like lilac leaves), and I though I need to do a little trimming. There wasn't one caterpillar on the bush. It is aobut 6' high and about at least 12 feet around. Today, I was walking by and those cute fuzzy white Killerpillars ate 3/4 of the leaves off that bush. I mean devoured it. There are so many on there it looks like white sap. Even though caterpillars are plenty here inN.E. Pa. I never really had an problems with them even though I live in the country. I have witnessed the damage done by caterpillars plenty of times but never like this and this fast. Tomorrow I am contacting PennState AG extension to find out what these are before they go to other trees.

Posted: **Aug 27, 2009 8:59 pm**

I think it may be a flannel moth larva, Megalopygidae. I could not find out if they range to Washington state. There are 11 kinds in North America, so it may be possible that yours is one of them.
Glo

Posted: **Aug 28, 2009 3:54 pm**

I saw this and went OMG!! Doris and OED are online, then I looked at the date

Hope they see you replied

Posted: **Aug 28, 2009 4:15 pm**

I was wondering why Peg was back in Illinois......

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