A young boy broke out with an alarming rash all over his face and body - caused by an innocent-looking caterpillar. Just 30 minutes after playing with the creature in his family's garden, four-year-old Oliver began complaining of a painful "stinging" on his face and mouth.
The next morning, he woke up covered in hives. Oliver's mum Caroline Gel is now warning others not to touch the type of caterpillar her son found - a brown tail moth caterpillar - to avoid them suffering a similar complaint.
Oliver was playing out last Tuesday evening (May 17) when he found the insect. Caroline, 43, from Steventon in Oxfordshire, said: "Oliver was learning about caterpillars at school as his class were reading the whole hungry caterpillar story.
