The white-marked tussock moth caterpillar may be exotic looking, even pretty.

Careful, though, you'll want to look but not touch.

"We have in the past seen outbreaks where people get concerned naturally because all these children have a rash thinking it's something contagious when it's actually just related to those caterpillars," Seminole County Health Department’s Kevin Baker said.

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