{"id":9088,"date":"2026-02-15T15:28:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2026-02-15T15:28:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T15:28:13","slug":"i-saw-something-strange-on-the-floor-in-my-home-and-was-about-to-touch-it-when-it-suddenly-started-moving-i-was-terrified-when-i-realized-what-it-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9088","title":{"rendered":"I saw something strange on the floor in my home and was about to touch it when it suddenly started moving: I was terrified when I realized what it was\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"84\" data-end=\"195\">I saw something unusual on the floor \u2014 bright green, tiny, with little \u201chorns,\u201d completely still at first. \ud83e\udd14<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"197\" data-end=\"307\">As I leaned closer, it twitched\u2026 then crawled, dark spines sticking out like a warning: \u201cDon\u2019t touch me.\u201d \ud83d\ude32<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"309\" data-end=\"504\">It was a <strong data-start=\"318\" data-end=\"344\">saddleback caterpillar<\/strong>, and its venom can cause pain, swelling, blisters, and even dizziness if touched. I was lucky \u2014 I carefully scooped it into a jar and released it outside. \ud83d\ude31<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"581\"><strong data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"517\">Lesson:<\/strong> always think twice before touching strange creatures indoors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>I saw something unusual on the floor \u2014 bright green, tiny, with little \u201chorns,\u201d completely still at first. \ud83e\udd14 As I leaned closer, it twitched\u2026 <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/?p=9088\" title=\"I saw something strange on the floor in my home and was about to touch it when it suddenly started moving: I was terrified when I realized what it was\u2026\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9090,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions\/9090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thepatswalk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}