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telophase ([personal profile] telophase) wrote2006-08-02 04:01 pm
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[livejournal.com profile] fascinoma wants to know... just what is this bug? Besides cute and furry. And possibly fake (if it is, it moves nicely and is a nice job).
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[identity profile] maxineofarc.livejournal.com 2006-08-02 09:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Has s/he tried www.whatsthatbug.com?

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-08-02 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Never got this notification. Huh. Don't think she has.

[identity profile] badnoodles.livejournal.com 2006-08-02 09:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I've been asked this question a lot over the past several days.

The consensus is that it's most like a brown morph of the Puss Caterpillar/Southern Flannel Moth, Megalopyge opercularis.

[identity profile] telophase.livejournal.com 2006-08-02 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
The video's making the rounds, huh? :D Thanks!

[identity profile] badnoodles.livejournal.com 2006-08-02 09:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, they don't call it "viral video" for nothing, I suppose.

[identity profile] blades-of-ice.livejournal.com 2006-08-03 05:20 am (UTC)(link)
That...is creepy. I don't ever want to see that thing in my house. Not that we have any of those interesting creatures here in Northern VA...

[identity profile] flusterdance.livejournal.com 2006-08-03 06:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Everybody else is like, "oh, how cute, I want to pet it!" while I'm like, "AAAAIIIIIIEEEEE WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT." The fact that it's a real bug and not a puppet scares the crap out of me. *hides in a plastic bubble*

[identity profile] tprjones.livejournal.com 2006-08-04 06:26 pm (UTC)(link)
On a related note, [profile] remus_shepherd linked to a bunch of pictures of caterpillers eating Sweden (http://user.it.uu.se/~svens/larverna/normal.html)

*shudder*
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