Monkey Slug Caterpillars at The Caterpillar Lab

Monkey Slug Caterpillars Is it a monkey? Is it a slug? No! It’s a monkey slug caterpillar! These strange beasts must surely be one of the most outlandish of all New England caterpillars. Finding one crawling down a driveway in Maine as a child I was stumped. What was this thing in front of me? Plant? Animal? Fungus? Slug caterpillars are weird to begin with, but with its twisted, hairy, balloon tentacles and stop and go crawl, Phobetron are in a class of their own. Believe it or not, most people don’t kn