Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Mystery Caterpillar (chunky white w red quills), 1 by Cms1980

Cms1980 wrote:
I have a mystery caterpillar that I photographed last year in the Yucatan…I cannot find any information regarding this type of insect anywhere on the web. Can you help identify?



I would say it was about 4” long by ˝” wide – seemed to have a dark body with a chunky white covering; some of the hairs were nearly 3” long and red with what appeared to be clear liquid on the ends of the shorter ones. I assumed it was poisonous! I couldn’t make out one end from the other so I never got a photo of its face. See attached photos, let me know what you think.