Posted on 10/06/2024 8:03:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Toxic Processionary caterpillars are becoming more and more present in Spain, posing a deadly threat to pets. Keep dogs safe as authorities warn of the toxic Processionary caterpillar, a growing concern in places like Axarquia, Costa del Sol, Ibiza, Menorca, and Murcia.
Pet owners soaking up the sun in Spain might want to take a break from tanning and keep a close eye on their four-legged friends – a hairy toxic menace is slithering through the streets, and it could spell disaster for some unlucky pooches.
The deadly Processionary caterpillar – a name that sounds more suited to a circus act than a silent killer – is back and making an early appearance this year, thanks to rising temperatures. When temperatures rise, so does the threat to pets. It’s a nightmare come true for dog owners in hotspots like Ibiza, Formentera, and Menorca. When temperatures soar, these dangerous creepy crawlies emerge early, turning a walk in the park into a potentially deadly game of Russian roulette for pets and pet owners.
'Dog-Killer' Caterpillars Invading Spain
The Processionary caterpillar might not look dangerous, but it can land your dog in a serious spot of bother. Just a single sniff or lick can trigger serious allergic reactions, breathing troubles, and, in extreme cases, blindness. Dog owners should be on high alert. These hairy creepy crawlies may induce mild skin reactions in humans, like itchy rashes, and in some cases, if someone is allergic, they may cause anaphylaxis. However, with dogs, the problem can be much more serious since the caterpillar’s hairs can act like poison darts that, in the worst cases, can lead to death by asphyxiation, according to pest control experts Doctor Pino.
The problem is so severe that authorities are handing out warnings, urging pet owners to stay vigilant. Vets across Spain have been telling dog owners to keep their dogs on a tight lead, especially in areas where these deadly bugs have been spotted. It’s not just the islands facing this issue – regions like Murcia are also seeing more of these caterpillars. There were government warnings reported in Murcia in January, and Almeria in February 2024.
Even the Axarquia Police Department released a public announcement on their Facebook page in 2021 warning pet owners about the dangers to dogs. Local Malaga vet Eduardo Fernandez stressed the importance of caution: “You must keep your pets away from these insects. Even brief contact could, in some cases, result in a life or death situation for your dog.”
There is a treatment available for trees, which helps prevent outbreaks of this creepy crawler. Many local councils already have regular seasonal treatment programmes in place. However, with changing temperatures, the caterpillar is hatching at unexpected times of the year.
So, if you’re out and about with your dog in Spain, watch where they’re sniffing.
Don’t forget to watch out for Haitian migrants too.
Gross
Africans are incompatible with European culture.
Cats are not curious?
People don’t realize that numerous caterpillars are toxic to some degree, including some of our North American ones.
https://www.bioexplorer.net/poisonous-caterpillars.html/
Ya know, perhaps the euro weenie author ought turn it down a few notches. The only thing missing from the piece is ‘climate change’.
Fact is that Spain is habitat for Thaumetopoea pityocampa (Pine processionary). “Regularly,” in fact, according to science.
Below is a paper describing the collection and analysis of nests...from 1925-1928 outside of Madrid in the Guadarrama region, FAR north of the south region ‘they’ claim the moth habitats normally.
https://www.cabidigitallibrary.org/doi/full/10.5555/19400500268
*sigh*
Meanwhile hurricane dogs ( and cats and livestock) need your help.
A local friend who is an absolute angel for rescues and people needing funding for sick dogs.
Die hard conservative too.
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Find her on Facebook under that charity too.
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Thank you for this.
Thank you!
Lana puts her heart and soul into helping every critter and person who needs it.
She is amazing.
Just sent cat and dog food and the alfalfa cubes for the bunnies and guinea pigs. How wonderful she is!
I can’t even begin to imagine the devastation - I am on the NC coast and am LIVID at this admin intentionally shoving pain at our citizens so they can funnel more money to the crimmigrants.
Maybe the Spaniards will make them a delicacy - like the Japanese did with the blowfish -— why did “blowfish” remind me of Kamala?
Spray Demand Duo on the trees, it kills overnight.
God bless you!!!!
I talk to my internet-less mom every night and she has no idea what’s happening there.
Not on the news at all.
How many more are unaware of the sheer scope of this horror?
Crimmigrants?
Heh.
Stealing that one.
;)
Its hard even for those of us with internet but no close contacts in that region (the habitat zone of my subspecies of American is coast to coast but only in the extreme nothern tier).
I find all kinds of sources covering it, just not any good ones. A lot of videos about a content creator that once heard of these places. Videos about one scruffy little pastor and his undamaged neighborhood. Sometimes a picture of a river with some junk in it which does tend to happen after a storm.
My husband and I are thinking of moving to the western part of NC or SC.
This has shaken us. Americans deserve better than what the liberals are doing to us and our pets.
My mother is actually afraid of the internet entirely.
She thinks hackers are out for her.
I’ve given up trying to convince her otherwise.
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