What on earth?

[Jeff]

Plant or animal?? I've never saw such a thing before. In my landscaping stone found while looking for rocks for my tumbler.


 

 

[doc henderson]

hmmmm.  I do not know.  is it stuck on the rock pretty well?  looks like a bunch of legs like a centipede, but also fern like.  

[JV]

My search says it is a Crowned Slug caterpillar that turns into a brown moth.  The fringe hairs are stingers but how toxic I don't know.  They supposedly feed on hardwoods.

[thecfarm]

It better turn pretty quick!!!! :snowman:

[Ljohnsaw]

Great close up!  Does anyone else see in the bright green the totem-pole like stack of faces?   The bottom lip of one is the eyebrows of the the one below.

Before I read the replies, I was thinking some sort of alien invasion! :D

[KEC]

As an army buddy I knew would say: I've been to two county fairs, three hog calls, and six goat ropings and ain't never seen anything like that."

[Jeff]

I put it in an acrylic box tonight. Hope to get a picture of it's feet tomorrow.

[chet]

Species Isa textula - Crowned Slug - Hodges#4681 - BugGuide.Net