We caught one of these and put it in a terrarium we had in our house. It escaped. And I stepped on it twice. I failed to see it both times because we have a very dark burgundy rug. The sensation of the sting is like stepping on a hot coal that sticks to your foot. Not very fun.

STEP ON IT?
WUT?!

No way.
It needs to be moved to a leafy happy place where it can nom all day on fresh crunchy goodness.

No SQUISH. NO.

Awww, I always love these guys. I’ve never been stung by one, and I’ve picked up and petted plenty of ‘em. We have them in California, but they don’t have a brown stripe in the middle like the woolybear that you all linked to, they’re all black like the one in the clip.

Yuck. Step on it.

[Hell yeah, kill it! Killing solves everything! - Ed.]

Okay I really WANT to think this is cute… but it’s still a bug to me and bugs make me cry…

atomicthumbs, thanks. Now I shall sleep sweetly.

I remember telling my (now ex-)fiance about how I saw a cute little woolly bear on my way to work and moved him to a bush so he wouldn’t get stepped on.

He just laughed at me, called me a Silly Villy, and said he’d never expect anything less from me. hehehe

Did I take photos of the moth I “saved?”

No, I was just a kid, and I don’t think my parents took any photographs… Too bad, though.
Also, we really weren’t expecting the moth to survive. Apparently s/he was healthy enough! ^_^

Not prosh. Ew.

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