A boy in Mississippi was stung by the most venomous caterpillar in America. Wyatt McCaskill, a 7-year-old boy from Horn Lake, Mississippi, was playing in his front yard when he decided to pick up a puss moth caterpillar.
“We were throwing leaves at each other, and I picked up one and it stung me,” he said. The dime-sized caterpillar, unbeknownst to Wyatt, holds a painful poison in its hair and is extremely dangerous.
Suddenly, the boy found himself in intense pain that moved from his finger up his arm, and then to his chest. “He is in the most pain I’ve ever seen him in,” his mother, Kelli McCaskill, said. “Sick to his stomach.” Read the full story here ▶
