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Published: 2010-08-10 01:26:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 2374; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 44
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I don't have a macro lens, but I can pretend.EDIT/ easy to confuse with a tomato hornworm; both can even be found on tomato OR tobacco plants, which are closely related!
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Odd that most pictures I see of these have the parasitic wasp pupae(?) on them. Nice to see one without nature being terrifying.
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gah its amazing what patterns nature gives things!
those little eyes look like stickers lol
he looks like hes just popped out of a childrens book
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It's so cute
The "eyes" are pretty neat. Did this little guy inspire Caterpie?
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Nah, Caterpie is a spicebrush swallowtail caterpillar, and its design doesn't exaggerate a thing:
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The real caterpillar has that forked, orange "horn" Caterpie has, but it's usually hidden. It's protruded when the caterpillar is startled, so that it looks a little like a snake's head and tongue. The horn also STINKS! Horribly!
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Haha, that's perfect! XD The stench is certainly a nice touch
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Awwwww, I used to catch these all the time when I was a kid.
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Those eyespots on its sides look like puffy stickers, almost.
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It's a tobacco hornworm! Black "tail" = tomato hornworm, this is of the utmost importance! 8D I love how contrasted this is; makes the eyeballs look super creepy >3
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So THAT'S what those are called! A lot of them live in a tomato bush I have growing in my backyard, and I had a feeling they weren't caterpillars.
This is a real nice photo, too. The hornworm looks awfully cuddly.
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Actually, they are caterpillars. They're just called "worms". They're the larval stage of a species of hawk moth.
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Oh, awesome! So they'll turn into moths. That's great!
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Pretty but devastating to my garden. Love to see praying mantids gobble them up.
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That liquid is coming out the wrong end of the caterpillar to be drool...
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That's its hind end...
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That's the butt, silly. The head is where its legs are, at the opposite end.
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