ID this

[Zag]

Never seen one of these any idea?

[wooly]

Don't know for sure without seeing the sides, but looks similar to the "io moth larvae" or "automeris io".

A shot of one I found a few years ago.

Linky- http://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=Io-Moth

 

Edited September 4, 2017 by wooly

[Pygmy]

Ask Bugsy.....He be an ENTOMOLOGIST  !

[mattypotpie8S]

size 10 green weenie.

[TACC]

Yeah, no kidding where is bugs and bows?

It looks like one we have down here in Florida, that if you touch it all of those little hairy tentacles are actually little stingers and hurt as bad as getting stung by a jelly fish

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[Lawdwaz]

I think I saw one of them in Canadice today but I never gave it a second look...............cool looking dude there wooly!

[Nomad]

It's a tree , they'er all over the place .

[bugsNbows]

Yep, it's an Io moth caterpillar. Has urticating spines all over that will deliver a painful response to handling! Other "stinging caterpillars" encountered such as the puss, saddleback, Hag moth and silkworm moth also deliver painful stings when handled carelessly. Their home ranges vary. 

[Curmudgeon]

I had the exhaust of the tractor knock a tussock moth caterpillar of a tree so that it landed on the back of my neck once. I whacked it. That was a mistake. Without knowing, or thinking, I kept rubbing the area while working on the tractor. By the time I got back to the house, my neck was inflamed. I called the ER. They said to use cortisone. Don't! It doesn't help. I should have take a photo.

[kpkot]

11 minutes ago, Curmudgeon said:

I had the exhaust of the tractor knock a tussock moth caterpillar of a tree so that it landed on the back of my neck once. I whacked it. That was a mistake. Without knowing, or thinking, I kept rubbing the area while working on the tractor. By the time I got back to the house, my neck was inflamed. I called the ER. They said to use cortisone. Don't! It doesn't help. I should have take a photo.

The cortisone made it worse??

[Curmudgeon]

It certainly didn't help. Go on the Web and look up toxic caterpillars. They say it doesn't work.  What helped was duct tape. Plastering it on my skin and ripping it off to remove the spines.

[bugsNbows]

This ^^^. 

[Zag]

Sure glad I ask, might have saved some trouble some of us down the road