DEADLY Caterpillars Are Invading The UK

These caterpillars could kill you! Kim Horcher and Xander Jeanneret break it down. Give us your thoughts in the comments below!

“An invasive, toxic species of caterpillar has officials in the UK on edge. Authorities are now warning residents to avoid the caterpillars and their prickly, poisonous hairs that can irritate and kill.
“It's time to be vigilant! Oak Processionary Moth spotted in parks across Bexley,” the Royal Forestry Society tweeted last week. (Bexley is a south-east London borough.)
So far, officials have only seen nests and emerging larvae of the toxic oak processionary moth, or OPM (Thaumetopoea processionea). The larvae, aka caterpillars, aren’t expected to fully hatch and begin moving around and eating oak foliage until around mid-May, at which point they pose a danger to humans as well as the trees.”

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KIM:

[hivebrain]

Brexit was supposed to stop this kind of thing!

[melissajones]

I just found one of those caterpillars in my garden in Kentucky

[CausticFoil]

I contacted my doctor and it was confirmed I had been severely affected by one punch man

[blinkyproduction]

When I was around 13 years old i hit a tree with a stick. I was unaware the tree had loads of these caterpillars on it and they shot hairs into my face. I had no idea what happened at the time but felt like loads of tiny thorns being thrown at my face at the same time. My face was itchy for a couple of days but i think because i was ignorant to what exactly happened it didn't effect me as much as it may have. Thoughts create things

[toraguchitoraguchi]

It's frigging poisonous, and really painful and the catepillars cost alot of money to remove. Cats and dogs die when they contact one of these. I don't know why some assholes are making a joke out of it.

[barryandrews]

I'm gardener .. rashes was in my scalp no doctors believe me up until this day, they haven't a clue

[Hello-ijnm]

I was checking on my flowers that I was growing and I found a weird little caterpillar with a brown head and white hairs sticking out I wanted to touch it but I didn't because it could have been poisonous so I picked it up with my shovel and threw it I searched up what it was and it was from the UK but I'm not in the UK and it's still in my porch somewhere and I'm worried about my cat's getting stung by it

[nymeriananshort]

I'm in the uk 🇬🇧 and I nearly stroked a catapiller that looked just liked that when I was a kid I'm so glad I didn't do it but it was in the 90s in the north of England so it was probably just a look alike

[jameswilsoncomedy]

Holy shit look at the caterpillar I've just found

[Trifler]

Is this the same fuzzy caterpillar they have in Africa? If they're the same, even having the wind blow over the caterpillar and then over your skin gives you an intensely itchy rash.

They birth in about 100 caterpillars in a densely packed circle on a tree. We started out spraying them with insecticide to kill them all in one go, but even their corpses still spread the itch in the wind. So, we turned to dousing them in kerosene and burning them. I hope these aren't the same ones in the UK, because they are a horrendous nightmare to deal with.

[eloucks]

These look exactly like some we have in Canada! Scary.

[AdamChan]

One of the first deadly creature in the UK! And it's a fucking catapilar :D

[saur]

This is why you should have a charazard near buy when gardening.

[kekk]

Here in the north of the UK I have seen 0 deadly caterpie

[kekk]

Where to get that Pikachu T-Shirt?? I needs it! :O

[anthonyscott]

Don't ever disrespect the fucking caterpillar.