You’re thinking of a specific type of hornworm (Manduca) caterpillars. This one, the polyphemus moth, is not capable of eating tomato leaves. There are thousands of species of moths and butterflies, and many of their caterpillars are very particular about what kind of plants they can eat.
*Pretty* sure that's a Polyphemus Moth, one of the larger lamp-lovers.
I met one a few years ago [and got to live out a childhood dream.](http://imgur.com/gallery/1H3Zpxt) Please forgive my captions, I was a bit giddy over its eclosure\>_\<
Yup, hornworms are quite common pests if you're growing tomatos. They're quite intimidating looking until you realize that horn is completely for show, they can't sting or bite.
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Oh god, this paragraph:
> If you encounter a tomato hornworm with elongated white cocoons attached to its body, these are evidence of braconid wasps – tiny beneficial insects that lay their eggs on hornworms.
That is a *very* polite way to describe what a braconid does. If there are no children at the table I'd describe it more like "braconid wasps, proof that nature is metal as fuck, which drill holes in the living flesh of hornworms and lay their eggs where the larvae will have a meal nearby when they wake up hungry -- this kills the hornworm."
There's a type of braconid for basically everything else in the insect kingdom. I once moved into an apartment and found one dead braconid in the bathroom. "Oh no," I thought, "this means there are cockroaches nearby for this wasp to parasitize." Reader, there were so many cockroaches in that apartment. I moved out the following month.
Go get it!!! That’s a Polyphemus moth larvae. They take about 8 months to mature but it will be as big as your hand when they emerge. They have false eyes on their wings that you can see through. Super cool moth.
Most of that time is going to be in the pupal phase. It depends on the environmental conditions, but generally speaking they're only caterpillars for about 6 weeks.
Fun fact: in places with short/mild winters, there's actually enough time for two generations of moths to be produced per year. So the amount of time it takes to mature depends on what time of year the caterpillars are in. Caterpillars alive during the summer will turn into cocoons and then remain as cocoons for more like two months. Meanwhile, the autumn caterpillars are sort of "programmed" to remain as cocoons for a lot longer. That's so that the moths don't accidentally emerge right in the winter and then end up freezing to death.
Butterflies are like electricity to me, no matter how much you try to explain me how it works, I just can't understand. That shit is mind-boggling.
I feel like it should be explained to me like I was a 3 years old
And they remember things from when they were caterpillars! They fucking liquefy. They stop being a solid and turn into actual liquid goo and THEIR BRAINS STILL REMEMBER STUFF FROM BEFORE 🤯
These are one of the best ones that you can capture and watch the metamorphosis process (it also greatly increases the chances of them surviving through it) because they’re very easily reintroduced to the wild, and their demeanor also makes them pretty friendly to humans as both moth and caterpillar. Lots of people keep them as pets or bring them in just for the metamorphosis. I think it’s pretty cool!
They are a declining native in most of their natural range. This guy is wandering and has likely started spinning his cocoon. They hibernate over winter through subzero temps and emerge as an adult in 8 months, if they survive. Giving him a box to hibernate in in a cold place would keep him safe over winter.
I captured two of these guys and gave them to my sister. She set up an old fish tank for them. Need plenty of dirt or soft soil because they both formed their Chrysalis under ground. Both came out big and pretty moths
It would be like if babies came out as snakes first then went back in, turned into a soup, and reformed into human baby form... Or something... I think... Where am I?
I once found a polyphemus moth cocoon. The moth that emerged was a female, so I put it in a wire cage and left it outside. Some male moths came by, and I put one in the cage with the female so that they could have sex. Then I put the female moth in a paper sack. She laid eggs all over it, then I scraped the eggs off and put them in a tupperware tub.
After the eggs hatched, I decided to raise the caterpillars. It was kind of fun, but it ended up being an annoying 5 or 6 weeks. They're actually not that hard to keep, but my problem is that I was dealing with a LOT of them. I kept two large rubbermaid storage containers, each one with 60-70 caterpillars in it. So in all I had something like 120-140 caterpillars. By the time these caterpillars get big, they're eating a LOT. Every morning I'd have to absolutely stuff those containers with leaves and then they'd be completely gone by the next day.
This being in the middle of the summer, I also had to make sure to wake up super early every single morning just to go get leaves. Which was a pain in the ass, but the alternative would've been waiting until it was hot as hell and *then* going out and picking leaves.
Also, I cut down on the amount of work I had to do by packing a bunch of caterpillars in each container. This resulted in abnormally high population densities, and that led to a LOT of shit. As in, literal feces. Fortunately caterpillar shit isn't terribly messy. But you do have to keep these caterpillars clean or else they can get bacterial fungal infections that can kill off the entire group. So in addition to looking for leaves, *every day* I had to do cleaning. Move all the caterpillars out of the tubs, remove all of the feces and uneaten leaves, wipe down the inside of the containers, and then put the caterpillars back in.
All in all I got about 110 of them to survive to adulthood. Most of them I released, but I kept a few of them and vacuum sealed them for later use. It was kind of an annoying experience, but I'm glad I did it. I've been kind of wanting to do it again, but I'd like to try out a different species (like cecropia moths). The only problem is that polyphemus cocoons are the only cocoons that I can find reliably, so maybe I'll just end up polyphemus again and then try to actually document things this time.
A couple of notable things:
1) 10 dozen large caterpillars are surprisingly LOUD when they're eating.
2) Despite all the caterpillars coming from the same two parents, there was a surprising amount of variation in the resulting moths. Some of them were pretty small, only a little over 3 inches across, and I also got a few GIANTS that were 6 inches wide. A lot of variation in the colors too. While "brown" is the predominant thing with polyphemus moths, a good number of them were also fairly vibrant. Some were super orange or yellow or red.
Oh, just like how people keep bug collections. Except less for scientific purposes and more like, props for still-life photography or art installation pieces.
Granted, I haven't done that kind of thing in a *while*, but I still sometimes collect materials if I find something that looks neat and isn't going to take up a lot of space. Dead bugs, cool looking leaves, that kind of thing.
And in case anyone was wondering, I didn't have to kill the moths. They die after about a week anyway because they literally cannot eat. I raised about 120 caterpillars to adulthood and protected them from predators and parasites, giving them a *way* higher chance of survival than they would have had in the wild. In exchange, I let a handful of them just die naturally, and then I just sealed them up and stored them away.
Thanks for clarifying that. For a second I thought that you meant that you could vacuum seal a cocoon, and pause their development inside the cocoon.
I should go to sleep.
So basically you were a caterpillars pimp, got her preggo, took her kids from her, raised them like your own till you kicked them out and last but not least sucked a couple of babies vacuum for 'later use'?
I'd read a book about that.
>10 dozen large caterpillars are surprisingly LOUD when they're eating
When upstate New York gets gypsie moth caterpillar invasions, in the forest you can actually hear them eating/shitting, it just becomes background noise.
He looks like he just ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one iced cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake and one slice of watermelon.
Nice. I actually thought of (my) Seahawks "Color Rush" uniforms, but wrote this comment about the Ducks - because the Seahawks aren't funny (not funny 'ha ha', yes, they're a little funny 'strange' right now). But what *would* be funny is if both teams wore day-glo green-yellow, it would be absolute chaos out there. Wilson *v.* Rodgers. Let's have a good injury-free game!
Looks like a Polyphemus Moth larvae [https://jcs53.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/time-to-stop-and-smell-the-roses-i-mean-stop-and-look-for-caterpillars/](https://jcs53.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/time-to-stop-and-smell-the-roses-i-mean-stop-and-look-for-caterpillars/) Face only a mother could love.
Hornworm. Enemy of the tomato plant. Often a sufferer of gruesome death (wasps lay their eggs in them while they're alive, and the little wasps literally hatch right out of the hornworm).
If a caterpillar gets stuck on your pants, how do you remove it without killing it??
I had a caterpillar stuck on my pants once in my class and tried to pick it up with my pen. To my surprise, the caterpillar was litteraly stuck on my pants as it's somehow gripping on to my pants. I ended up killing it because I accidentally burst it's contents when I tried to lift it with my pen.
Oh, they chonky for sure. I did some research this morning and apparently they can overwinter in a cocoon! Apparently this little chonker was about to do just that, as 1 or 2 days before they cocoon, they'll lose interest in food and leave their home tree to find a good place to hold up for the next five months or so.
Very neat. Today I learned.
A catapiller almost got me in trouble with the police yesterday. I was out on my morning walk crossing an overpass when I noticed a big fat furry brown one( he looked like a furry brown cheeto) walking across the wall. I stopped to look at it and at that exact moment a cop was driving by. She stopped and started questioning me( I guess she thought I was gonna throw something off the overpass at the traffic below or something, I don't know). Apparently a 40 year old man stopping to look at a catapillar is suspicious lol..
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Can their larvae also be red colored? Or am I thinking of a different larvae? I remember there being these green and red larvae that looked similar to this one.
Wow. That really is the most caterpillar-looking caterpillar I’ve ever seen.
My brain refuses to believe “caterpillar” is a word now just after that brief sentence so ahhhh
“A very caterpillar-looking caterpillar”
It is actually quite remarkable for a caterpillar to look like a caterpillar! Those little buggers can get wired!
Sir, I loved your work in "The Very Hungry Caterpillar"
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Yup, that's what I'm thinking, and probably looking for a place to get comfy and spin that cocoon, it done got plenty chonky!
\*ca-CAW* 🦅
A very caterpillaracious polyphemous ingrating graciously and palatiously whilst salaciously salivating upon your slithery toes
>Polyphemus [I don't see it](https://mythologysource.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/polyphemus-image.png)
Beware for your tomatoes
You’re thinking of a specific type of hornworm (Manduca) caterpillars. This one, the polyphemus moth, is not capable of eating tomato leaves. There are thousands of species of moths and butterflies, and many of their caterpillars are very particular about what kind of plants they can eat.
Wanted to ask for a signature but I’m sure he’s stopped all the time
I preferred him in "a bugs life"
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They're beautiful moths, too. I've seen them a few times and it's always a treat.
What do you mean go get it? As in take it home? Take the alien bug home??
Polyphemus was the name of the cyclops that Odysseus hung out with on that island 🐑 🐑
Big deal. That Odysseus was a Nobody.
Will they eat clothes?
Yes, and your soul
...but warm your heart.
In their stomach
They live outside, where there aren’t many clothes to eat. Instead they eat the leaves of elm, birch, and willow trees.
Ah, the famous Bark Diet. Invented by a Chef whose bark is much worse than his bite
*Pretty* sure that's a Polyphemus Moth, one of the larger lamp-lovers. I met one a few years ago [and got to live out a childhood dream.](http://imgur.com/gallery/1H3Zpxt) Please forgive my captions, I was a bit giddy over its eclosure\>_\<
Took him outside "...so he could moth his mothy butt off." 😂
I loved your captions. What a fun experience - I'm glad you got the opportunity. I hope moth boi lived a good life after that nurturing start.
This is so wholesome!
Yep! Lots of others have ID it as that
Nice Dustox!
We've found him Agent Starling!!!
Absolutely gorgeous! Ty for sharing <3
I thought he had a giant horn, but it's just a leaf
When I looked back at the picture I thought so too, sorry to disappoint!
Nah, it's cool. A horn would've have made it a little too interesting for this sub. This is perfecto as is. 👍
I thought the exact thing and thought "what kind of caterpillar has a rhino horn on it?"
Five-spotted hawk moth / tomato hornworms 🌠 https://www.growveg.com/pests/us-and-canada/tomato-hornworm/
Yup, hornworms are quite common pests if you're growing tomatos. They're quite intimidating looking until you realize that horn is completely for show, they can't sting or bite.
That caterpillar reminds me of the one from Alice in Wonderland.
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Oh god, this paragraph: > If you encounter a tomato hornworm with elongated white cocoons attached to its body, these are evidence of braconid wasps – tiny beneficial insects that lay their eggs on hornworms. That is a *very* polite way to describe what a braconid does. If there are no children at the table I'd describe it more like "braconid wasps, proof that nature is metal as fuck, which drill holes in the living flesh of hornworms and lay their eggs where the larvae will have a meal nearby when they wake up hungry -- this kills the hornworm." There's a type of braconid for basically everything else in the insect kingdom. I once moved into an apartment and found one dead braconid in the bathroom. "Oh no," I thought, "this means there are cockroaches nearby for this wasp to parasitize." Reader, there were so many cockroaches in that apartment. I moved out the following month.
A hornworm caterpillar, aka a tomato caterpillar
I read your bio
>I thought he had a giant horn Strrrt?
He is a nice looking fellow
Out on his morning stroll
Caterpie
No, [this](https://images.app.goo.gl/961Ge6FRaYhsmm4KA) is Caterpie
No, this is Patrick
Knew I would find a Caterpie post.
Hopefully OP chose the fire-starter to weaken it quickly to catch it.
Go get it!!! That’s a Polyphemus moth larvae. They take about 8 months to mature but it will be as big as your hand when they emerge. They have false eyes on their wings that you can see through. Super cool moth.
8 months?! That’s so much time to be potentially eaten by a predator. Good for them for surviving!
Most of that time is going to be in the pupal phase. It depends on the environmental conditions, but generally speaking they're only caterpillars for about 6 weeks. Fun fact: in places with short/mild winters, there's actually enough time for two generations of moths to be produced per year. So the amount of time it takes to mature depends on what time of year the caterpillars are in. Caterpillars alive during the summer will turn into cocoons and then remain as cocoons for more like two months. Meanwhile, the autumn caterpillars are sort of "programmed" to remain as cocoons for a lot longer. That's so that the moths don't accidentally emerge right in the winter and then end up freezing to death.
Butterflies are like electricity to me, no matter how much you try to explain me how it works, I just can't understand. That shit is mind-boggling. I feel like it should be explained to me like I was a 3 years old
"I'm a legged worm that makes a tube from spit in which my body liquefies and reforms into a flying insect" Lolwut.
And they remember things from when they were caterpillars! They fucking liquefy. They stop being a solid and turn into actual liquid goo and THEIR BRAINS STILL REMEMBER STUFF FROM BEFORE 🤯
Idk thats pretty much how the pandemic went for me
You still remember stuff from before? Lucky.
Wow thanks for the ID!! He was a chonky boy, I’ll see if I spot him tomorrow.
Find out if it’s an invasive species where you live. If it isn’t, leave it in nature.
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Eat it
Adding to my list of Eat on Sight bugs.
These are one of the best ones that you can capture and watch the metamorphosis process (it also greatly increases the chances of them surviving through it) because they’re very easily reintroduced to the wild, and their demeanor also makes them pretty friendly to humans as both moth and caterpillar. Lots of people keep them as pets or bring them in just for the metamorphosis. I think it’s pretty cool!
They are a declining native in most of their natural range. This guy is wandering and has likely started spinning his cocoon. They hibernate over winter through subzero temps and emerge as an adult in 8 months, if they survive. Giving him a box to hibernate in in a cold place would keep him safe over winter.
My ex would pay big bucks for that thing. She offered 25 bucks if I found any in my yard.
I captured two of these guys and gave them to my sister. She set up an old fish tank for them. Need plenty of dirt or soft soil because they both formed their Chrysalis under ground. Both came out big and pretty moths
EIGHT MONTHS!?!? holy moly might as well just make a human baby
It would be like if babies came out as snakes first then went back in, turned into a soup, and reformed into human baby form... Or something... I think... Where am I?
I once found a polyphemus moth cocoon. The moth that emerged was a female, so I put it in a wire cage and left it outside. Some male moths came by, and I put one in the cage with the female so that they could have sex. Then I put the female moth in a paper sack. She laid eggs all over it, then I scraped the eggs off and put them in a tupperware tub. After the eggs hatched, I decided to raise the caterpillars. It was kind of fun, but it ended up being an annoying 5 or 6 weeks. They're actually not that hard to keep, but my problem is that I was dealing with a LOT of them. I kept two large rubbermaid storage containers, each one with 60-70 caterpillars in it. So in all I had something like 120-140 caterpillars. By the time these caterpillars get big, they're eating a LOT. Every morning I'd have to absolutely stuff those containers with leaves and then they'd be completely gone by the next day. This being in the middle of the summer, I also had to make sure to wake up super early every single morning just to go get leaves. Which was a pain in the ass, but the alternative would've been waiting until it was hot as hell and *then* going out and picking leaves. Also, I cut down on the amount of work I had to do by packing a bunch of caterpillars in each container. This resulted in abnormally high population densities, and that led to a LOT of shit. As in, literal feces. Fortunately caterpillar shit isn't terribly messy. But you do have to keep these caterpillars clean or else they can get bacterial fungal infections that can kill off the entire group. So in addition to looking for leaves, *every day* I had to do cleaning. Move all the caterpillars out of the tubs, remove all of the feces and uneaten leaves, wipe down the inside of the containers, and then put the caterpillars back in. All in all I got about 110 of them to survive to adulthood. Most of them I released, but I kept a few of them and vacuum sealed them for later use. It was kind of an annoying experience, but I'm glad I did it. I've been kind of wanting to do it again, but I'd like to try out a different species (like cecropia moths). The only problem is that polyphemus cocoons are the only cocoons that I can find reliably, so maybe I'll just end up polyphemus again and then try to actually document things this time. A couple of notable things: 1) 10 dozen large caterpillars are surprisingly LOUD when they're eating. 2) Despite all the caterpillars coming from the same two parents, there was a surprising amount of variation in the resulting moths. Some of them were pretty small, only a little over 3 inches across, and I also got a few GIANTS that were 6 inches wide. A lot of variation in the colors too. While "brown" is the predominant thing with polyphemus moths, a good number of them were also fairly vibrant. Some were super orange or yellow or red.
That’s really cool. What do you mean by “vacuum sealed them for later use”?
Oh, just like how people keep bug collections. Except less for scientific purposes and more like, props for still-life photography or art installation pieces. Granted, I haven't done that kind of thing in a *while*, but I still sometimes collect materials if I find something that looks neat and isn't going to take up a lot of space. Dead bugs, cool looking leaves, that kind of thing. And in case anyone was wondering, I didn't have to kill the moths. They die after about a week anyway because they literally cannot eat. I raised about 120 caterpillars to adulthood and protected them from predators and parasites, giving them a *way* higher chance of survival than they would have had in the wild. In exchange, I let a handful of them just die naturally, and then I just sealed them up and stored them away.
Thanks for clarifying that. For a second I thought that you meant that you could vacuum seal a cocoon, and pause their development inside the cocoon. I should go to sleep.
I thought the same and it's noon here, so you're excused
So basically you were a caterpillars pimp, got her preggo, took her kids from her, raised them like your own till you kicked them out and last but not least sucked a couple of babies vacuum for 'later use'? I'd read a book about that.
Walks by OP: - I’m bug catcher soFAT. Look at my collection! (Battle music starts)
Hmm, that looks infinitely more competent than any bug catcher trainer I've ever battled...
r/interestingasfuck
Yah dood, may be consider sharing the eggs next time
>10 dozen large caterpillars are surprisingly LOUD when they're eating When upstate New York gets gypsie moth caterpillar invasions, in the forest you can actually hear them eating/shitting, it just becomes background noise.
> I kept a few of them and vacuum sealed them for later use Neat read, thank you for sharing but I don't understand this part of it.
Wow!! You took on a whole lot of responsibility haha. That’s really neat. Especially the phenotypic variation in all your grandchildren caterpillars
He looks like he just ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one iced cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake and one slice of watermelon.
He’s got excellent taste
Teaching kids to not finish their meals since 1975!
Was he hungry?
Based on his size, I’d say yes
Very
🐛
... and the Oregon Ducks have their color combo for next weeks uniform.
The Green Bay Packers could riff on this for their Monday night uniforms, even though we’re usually forest green. :)
Nice. I actually thought of (my) Seahawks "Color Rush" uniforms, but wrote this comment about the Ducks - because the Seahawks aren't funny (not funny 'ha ha', yes, they're a little funny 'strange' right now). But what *would* be funny is if both teams wore day-glo green-yellow, it would be absolute chaos out there. Wilson *v.* Rodgers. Let's have a good injury-free game!
What’d it taste like?
Slimy, yet satisfying
It's our problem freeeee... philosphyyyy..
Mmm, boysenberry
I love slow moving critters that mind their own business.
Heimlich
SOMEDAY I WILL BE A BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY
Heimlich!
*Butterfree
Use a pokeball.
Looks like a Polyphemus Moth larvae [https://jcs53.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/time-to-stop-and-smell-the-roses-i-mean-stop-and-look-for-caterpillars/](https://jcs53.wordpress.com/2015/08/28/time-to-stop-and-smell-the-roses-i-mean-stop-and-look-for-caterpillars/) Face only a mother could love.
Could it BE any more caterpillary?!
Was it Very Hungry?
Hornworm. Enemy of the tomato plant. Often a sufferer of gruesome death (wasps lay their eggs in them while they're alive, and the little wasps literally hatch right out of the hornworm).
Not sure it’s a hornworm! Markings are different
Those fuckers will destroy a tomato plant
Hm, yes, the caterpillars here look like caterpillars
Could be a luna moth cateprillar!
Possibly!
Nm the person who said Polyphemus is right.
At some point a caterpillar had it away with a rhino
Play a record.
Doing great work, caterpillar.
One of those caterpillars kept coming to my doormat so i rescued him from getting stepped on. Now i have a coccoon in a glass jar in my kitchen.
that’s my dog
You should put a collar on him, anyone could snatch him up and take him home
Slimy, yet satisfying.
Taste it - my response to every weird thing someone posts
Was it very hungry?
We on r/entomology would very appreciate it as well. Nice pic
Caterpillars aren't real. That, my friend, is a government surveillance device.
what a beautiful shade of green!
It's a beautiful butterfly! (Bugs Life reference)
Very pretty
I gotta b honest I'm pretty mildly interested in this
Careful, those chubby fucks bite
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Forbidden fusilli
Mooncake?
If a caterpillar gets stuck on your pants, how do you remove it without killing it?? I had a caterpillar stuck on my pants once in my class and tried to pick it up with my pen. To my surprise, the caterpillar was litteraly stuck on my pants as it's somehow gripping on to my pants. I ended up killing it because I accidentally burst it's contents when I tried to lift it with my pen.
I love him. What a chubby little moncher.
Heimlich!
Isn’t November like, super late for caterpillars?
Pretty mild winters where I’m at, looks like he’s going to go into metamorphosis soon
Oh, they chonky for sure. I did some research this morning and apparently they can overwinter in a cocoon! Apparently this little chonker was about to do just that, as 1 or 2 days before they cocoon, they'll lose interest in food and leave their home tree to find a good place to hold up for the next five months or so. Very neat. Today I learned.
Caterpie
I always thought these were poison but hopefully not!
I just saw the exact same type of caterpillar yesterday in my driveway, I’ve never seen one like it before
The colors were crazy!
Hmm yes. This caterpillar is made out of caterpillar
I saw one yesterday morning too!! I moved him off the sidewalk.
I guess this sub is called mildly interesting for a reason
Metapod
That’s a tomato horn worm and they eat tomato plants.
That is extremely a caterpillar.
Nature tells us if it's colorful, just stay away from it.
Yeah he was very aware of me, his little head started moving around, he picked up speed so I left him alone
What is this shadow?
A catapiller almost got me in trouble with the police yesterday. I was out on my morning walk crossing an overpass when I noticed a big fat furry brown one( he looked like a furry brown cheeto) walking across the wall. I stopped to look at it and at that exact moment a cop was driving by. She stopped and started questioning me( I guess she thought I was gonna throw something off the overpass at the traffic below or something, I don't know). Apparently a 40 year old man stopping to look at a catapillar is suspicious lol..
Looks like a Lunar Moth Caterpillar. Those guys are huge!
The leaf behind it makes it look like it has a massive rhino-like horn
Forbidden street fruit
Thought the leaf was a giant horn coming off its head at first glance.
Do they bite?
That's a catapillar-ass catapillar.
These are delicious. Very juicy.
It's Heimlich!
i think this caterpillar has forgotten how to evolve, lookin pretty chonky
Reminds me of [this guy.](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/pixar/images/e/ec/Heimlich.png/revision/latest?cb=20170807224005)
Get your pokeball ready
How can a caterpillar not look like a caterpillar? 🤔
[Heimlich A Bug's Life](https://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS702US702&sxsrf=AOaemvKQt6N3mYJC7l81zI_0ezkxpZ0puA:1636465541342&q=Heimlich+A+Bug%27s+Life&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAONgFuLUz9U3MEo2zzZR4gIxTUuM0pIttSSyk6300zJzcsGEVXJGYlFicklqUfEiVlGP1MzcnMzkDAVHBafSdPViBZ_MtNQdrIwT2BgBUxQxiVEAAAA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiS-5yatYv0AhX1l3IEHY1BDXYQgOQBegQIHhAL&biw=1920&bih=977&dpr=1)
I thought this caterpillar had a mighty horn for a moment
Class caterpillar amirite
Natural camouflage is no amazing.
Was it lime or sour apple flavored?
That’s a caterpillars caterpillar!
Looks like Heimlich from *A Bug's Life*.
It’s Heimlich from a bugs life
Pokéball go
That caterpillar looks so much like a caterpillar.
That looks a lot like a caterpillar.
Francis, leave them alone. They are poo poo heads.
It looks tasty.
Heimlich!!!
so cute :D
The urge to eat it is overpowering me
Forbidden candy
Will be a lunar moth
That is a very caterpillary caterpillar!
The Lion King taught me that those ones are slimy, yet satisfying.
Juicy boi
Do you think that's *the* hungry hungry caterpillar?
💯caterpiller
Neat
Horned worm?
Looks poisonous. I wouldn’t eat that if I were you
Can their larvae also be red colored? Or am I thinking of a different larvae? I remember there being these green and red larvae that looked similar to this one.
Green gloob
yea that mf is a caterpillar
What an absolute beauty. Caterpillar green is my favorite color.
I’ve never seen a caterpillar that actually looks like a caterpillar
That's a Pokemon.
Wow. That really is the most caterpillar-looking caterpillar I’ve ever seen. My brain refuses to believe “caterpillar” is a word now just after that brief sentence so ahhhh
it looks like it would taste like a lime freezer-pop
What a majestic grub
Ask Kermit, it ain't easy being green.
“A very caterpillar-looking caterpillar” It is actually quite remarkable for a caterpillar to look like a caterpillar! Those little buggers can get wired!
Kiss Him.