#caterpillars

[jupiterswasphouse]

[VIDEO TAKEN: MARCH 30TH, 2024 | Video ID: A video of a green noctuid caterpillar on a light skinned human hand, attempting to burrow through the gap between two fingers, eventually falling through when provided with a wider gap /End ID.]

[soft-stims]

Tea set

[paper-swirls]

CAT-erpillars!

[heartnosekid]

machaon caterpillar (old world swallowtail) | malbafont_macrophotography on ig

[etakeh]

This is so cool.

Tell me you've never wanted a molting cicada plushie. It's got iridescent wings. LOOK AT IT.

Also got a pitcher plant backpack...with a doomed caterpillar. Sorely tempted.

(he also makes glow in the dark plants) (and breeds monstera) (and has a free downloadable guide to plant breeding for cool characteristics)

anyway support independent artists or something? that make cool things?

[platycryptus]

a mess of mature promethea moth caterpillars (Callosamia promethea) wriggling plumply after spending a little less than a month fattening up on wild cherry leaves

a smaller relative of the cecropia moth, these are one of the less well-known giant silkmoths in the US, but they might just be my favorite species to raise.

(Massachusetts, 8/20/23)

[titsay]

[dunwichdrawsstuff]

Hands you a caterpillar

Hands you a caterpillar

Hands you a caterpillar

Hands you a caterpillar

Hands you a caterpillar

Hands you a caterpillar

I only had six caterpillars so that’s it

[clawmarks]

Insects, their ways and means of living - Robert E. Snodgrass - 1930 - via Internet Archive

[1five1two]

Citheronia phoronea caterpillar.

[calciferstims]

BUG RACE!!

sources: 🪱🪱🪱 | 🐌🐌🐌 | 🐛🐛🐛

[hellsitegenetics]

honestly i feel like most of the answers i’ve seen from here are bugs. does that make sense statistically? i don’t know im just curious. perhaps i too will get a bug. it would be an honor

String identified: t t t a ’ a g. tat a tattca? ’t t c. a t gt a g. t a

Closest match: Helicoverpa armigera genome assembly, chromosome: 5 Common name: Cotton bollworm

[crazycaterpillarlady]

The biggest in the lot and the smallest ♡

[heartnosekid]

jewel caterpillar (minacraga argentata) | source

[nemfrog]

Metamorphosis of the swallowtail. Métamorphoses mœurs et instincts des insectes. 1868.

Internet Archive

[platycryptus]

time lapse of a banded sphinx moth caterpillar (Eumorpha fasciatus) devouring a water primrose leaf

(Florida, 9/18/22)

E. fasciatus caterpillars are heavily polymorphic and come in several different color morphs- those stripy rainbow ones are from the same population as the green one.

another neat thing about these guys is that most caterpillars drown easily, but since water primrose (Ludwigia) usually grows in standing water, E. fasciatus caterpillars have a propensity for swimming and are often seen wriggling their way through lakes when they need to come ashore to pupate.