For instance, people have the idea that all moth caterpillars have poisonous bristles which are harmful to humans. And after a podocarp plantation in Nantou County was devastated by inchworms, various newspapers repeated the baseless assertion that these moth caterpillars--which are diurnal and do not have poisonous bristles-- "secrete a corrosive fluid from their bodies."
例如人們認為蛾類幼蟲身上才有傷人的毒毛，南投竹柏園遭黃帶枝尺蛾洗劫後，報紙以訛傳訛，日行性、無毒毛的黃帶枝尺蛾幼蟲，竟然成了「身上會分泌腐蝕性液體」。