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

Lao Tzu

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On ragwort flowers

Corupá - Brazil.

"damn ... spring already ?"

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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.

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.

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

Canon EOS 5DS R

TAMRON 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD A010

ƒ/16.0 300.0 mm 1/125 3200

caterpillar....

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I didn't see this hidden below the flower buds 'till I zoomed in. :-))

EF 50mm f/1.4 + 250D closeup lens

Lagartas em Maio

a monarch butterfly caterpillar

Peacock butterfly caterpillar

Swallowtail

Audierne, Finistère, Brittany, France

I spotted this Viceroy caterpillar in a tree yesterday while 3 of us were out hunting clubtails again. Hadn't seen a Viceroy cat in awhile. Not sure of the tree - they use several as their host plants. The adult Viceroys spend most of their time in the open wetlands.

>> Viceroy caterpillar, yesterday at the wetlands - N. Georgia

See recent shot of a Viceroy - similar to a Monarch in appearance.

Of Common crow butterfly

Clicked in my garden

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Yellow-tail (Euproctis similis)

This is the larvae of a Tussock Moth, adults and larvae both have dangerous barbed hairs and should not be handled and can be painful.

The name Yellow-tail comes from the slight yellow smudge to the wings of the male adult moth.

Photographed last September 2017.

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

Taken in the northern section of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia.

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Lackford Lakes

Cleethorpes

I wouldn't touch it.

Spiny Oak Slug

Caterpillar 5bis

Kunstenaar: Wim Delvoye

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.