“What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly.”

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Caterpillars /ˈkætərˌpɪlər/ are the larval stagee of members of the order Lepidoptera (the insect order comprising butterflies and moths).

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“Keep up your faith to go high and fly, even after so many pains and sorrow. You can turn from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Life gives you a second change: a call to grow.”

― Ana Claudia Antunes

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Corupá - Brazil.

I found this wild looking creature early in the morning while out on a macro hunt, little did I know, it's a very poisonous caterpillar (National Geographic calls the puss caterpillar the most venomous in the U.S.) I did some research when I got home only to find that its sting is very painful and will even make your bones ache.

After finding out all this stuff I realized I was way to close to this thing.

In my backyard

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This was one of a number feeding on a ceanosis in a neighbour's garden. The adult male of the species is easily recognisable by their rich reddish brown forewings. The females are virtually wingless and are unable to fly and remain close to the papal cocoon. They are found throughout Europe, temperate Asia, Siberia and the USA. As with most hairy caterpillars, the bristles are connected to venomous glands and function as a defensive barrier to would-be predators and cause irritation to the skin. They feed on the foliage of various trees and shrubs.

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I spotted this one crawling along a Daisy stem.

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The Spanish moth, Xanthopastis timais (Cramer), is unmistakable for any other moth in Florida. The larvae are likewise very colorful, and have been called convict caterpillars. The larvae are occasional pests of lilies, mainly in Amaryllidaceae.

Great camouflage...it looks like one of the limbs of the St John's Wort.

An awesome little caterpillar that my son found for me at Shenandoah National Park in Virginia.

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Peacock butterfly caterpillar

Swallowtail

Audierne, Finistère, Brittany, France

Of Common crow butterfly

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Machaon caterpillar

Winterthur gardens - Delaware

Adding this one to the top of the list of crazy caterpillars that I have found. Photographed at Conowingo Dam in Maryland.

I think it's possibly a Brown Tail Caterpillar but please correct me if I'm wrong.

Standhisround and Jeff have probably correctly identified him as a Knot Grass Caterpillar

Tyria jacobaeae

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Cleethorpes

I wouldn't touch it.

Spiny Oak Slug

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Het exemplaar dat er nu te zien is, is niet het originele exemplaar die er in 2003 stond, tijdens Beaufort01. Het originele werk verhuisde datzelfde jaar nog naar Ground Zero in New York. Dit werk is opmerkelijk groter en monumentaler en het heeft ook geen attributen naast zich. De oorspronkelijke versie had een schop met signaleringshekken en een hoop (gotische) aarde naast zich. Het huidige werk staat er sinds 2004. Het wordt gekenmerkt door een vreemde spanning veroorzaakt door het samenbrengen van twee werelden die niets met elkaar gemeen hebben, namelijk de moderne tijden gesymboliseerd door de rupsbandtractor en de middeleeuwse wereld opgeroepen door de decoratiepatronen van een gotische kerk.