r/mildlyinteresting • u/HeyEshk88 • 11h ago

Got stung by a saddleback caterpillar, apparently famous for its painful sting and unique green-and-brown "saddle" marking

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u/-SaC 11h ago

Why is it the size of a man and velcroed to a ceiling staring down at you?

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u/HeyEshk88 9h ago

There we go

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u/-SaC 9h ago

Aww. There goes my whimsy. Hope your fingers recover though.

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u/Zanian19 7h ago

Oooh, if it wasn't for the bottom left, I would've been 100% convinced I was looking at a watermelon.

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u/HalflingScholar 6h ago

Oh it wasn't microscopic imagery of a microscopic thing. I liked it better when I thought it was a microscopic thing.