Just thinking it was more of a psyops ploy. Could be there was no caterpillar in the box.
Well,I have never been exposed to a BAD catepillar, just green wiggly ones that are harmless.
I did, however, have a scorpion crawl across my face one night when I was about 13 years old. My parents owned a bait shop/souvenier store outside a wildlife refuge with some great fishing opportunities.
It was a holiday weekend and parents kept the store open all night. We kids slept on cots in the back room (the cold beer storage was half underground, and we lived in SW Oklahoma, a place full of boulders, looked like a place in Idaho.
There was a light on, and I felt something crawling (tickling) my face in the middle of the night. I brushed it off my face, then sat up and saw a scorpion crawling on my bed, striking the bed with its hook. Had I smashed it with my hand, it would have hit me on the face.
These were big brown scorpions, and made one really sick when they hit you.
One of MANY bug stories. I had a brown recluse spider jump at me once when I pulled a dead plant from some mulch. It was a very aggressive spider, and I knew what it was.
A caterpillar is mild in my world. They make butterflies. I wouldn’t hurt one, but I think a frigging terrorist deserves some hurt.
We are thicker than fleas (spiders), so it would be hard to find us all.