Buggg

>>2209833

It's a saddleback caterpillar (Acharia stimulea) with the eggs of a parasitic wasp laid on its bodies.

When the eggs hatch the wasp larvae will burrow thru the skin and that poor mofo is literally going to be eaten alive from the inside out.

>>2209833

greenandbrown recluserpillar

>>2209840
Does anyone else ever feel tempted to either remove the parasites or kill the host to spare it or just to prevent more parasites?

>>2209842

Kinda, yeah, but balance-of-nature 'n' shit.......

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>>2209840
Pretty sure those are the cocoons of the wasp pupae. So more than likely the catterpillar is just an exoskeleton at this point. They're pretty catterpillars, but the irritating hairs are a bitch.

>>2209863

You could likely be right - I'm not familiar with the life stages of these taxa at-all.

>>2209863
Fuckin Cazadors

>>2209859
Humans are part of nature, too. Helping animals because of emotions is instincual for most of us. Nothing wrong with following instincts.

>>2209919

True, but I mostly don't interfere with nature unless it fucks with me first or needs a helping hand cos of some dumbfuck thing humans did. A personal choice.

>>2209833
Cute bugger!

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What is this bug

>>2210254
Sawfly. Its kinda like the ancestor of wasps and bees

>>2209842
considering that the Saddleback Caterpillar is a venomous pest, I'd say let the parasites do their thing.

>>2209919
Humans have a bad history of fucking over ecosystems for reasons that seemed good at the time.

I understand where you're coming from, and it's only human nature to feel compassion the way we do, but I don't think you should mess with this. Obviously helping 1 caterpillar isn't going to fuck over the whole world, but it's a principle thing. Those wasps might become food for birds, or might help pollinate some flowers.

Basically I think you should just let it go. Not that I particularly like wasps, but it's better to approach nature from a hands-off perspective. ecosystems have ways of balancing themselves out in ways we can't always see.

Technically the caterpillar is already dead , just end it

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Hello friends i just founds this on my arm what kind of bug is it?

>>2212747
It's a leaf-footed bug.

>>2209859
Bro, nature's been out of balance for a couple hundred years. We've fucked it nearly beyond repair. Helping this poor guy isn't going to damage anything at this point.

>>2212747
Some kind of assassin bug

>>2212979
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