>>818398There are poisonous caterpillars though. One of them can kill you.
I had Saddleback caterpillars on my corn one year. Holy fuck they hurt. It didn't look like much on my skin but it felt like a super bad muscle cramp, only in my skin instead of a muscle and it lasted for like 12 hours.
>Giant Silkworm Moth (Lonomia obliqua)>It was also discovered that the toxin in the caterpillar's skin held potent anti-clotting agents. This anti-clotting agent would attach to another protein to the body's cells and cause them to leak as blood is unable to clot. This internal bleeding would fill the surrounding tissue with "bruised blood". This internal bleeding spreads through the internal organs and eventually leads to compression and brain death. This accounts for the minimum of 500 deaths resulting from contact with L. obliqua caterpillars. The poison only takes effect in fairly large amounts; in order to experience the extreme effects caused by the toxins, a human victim would probably need to be stung at least 20 to 100 times because each sting only injects a minute amount of venom. 