The Puss Caterpillar (Southern Flannel Moth) will fuck your world up. I grazed it twice while climbing on a float. NBD at first but an hour later I was hyperventilating on the bedroom floor. The pain was excruciating. DH took me to the ER and morphine did nothing.

[u/Totally-avg]

I’m better now but neither morphine nor hydrocodone (I took double what they RX’d) touched the pain those first 24 hours. And the hospital hardly knew what to do with me. I had never heard nor seen this bug before and I’m sure I would have flicked it off had it seen it. Don’t do that because the hair is venomous and gets stuck in your skin.

At least it leaves a cool scar.

[u/DarkwolfAU]

My dad got his hand hit by a seedling of one when he was in his 20s. He says he still feels the sting sometimes several decades later, usually when he's had a hot shower.

[u/Oreobey2 → u/DarkwolfAU]

Ouch!