The pain from the southern flannel moth caterpillar sting has been described in several different, but all excruciating ways—a white-hot or knife-like sensation, a pain you can feel in your ...

Eric LoPresti, an assistant professor of ecology at the University of South Carolina, used the words “fuzzy” and “adorable” to describe the southern flannel moth, a common springtime insect in North ...

You’d have to be brushing up against foliage that happens to have the caterpillar there or directly grabbing them for them to sting you.” Protecting yourself from the southern flannel moth is ...