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

Lao Tzu

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A lowish crop of weeds beside a carpark, seen against the background of a cream coloured corrugated iron fence.

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

Zebrarups

On ragwort flowers

Corupá - Brazil.

"damn ... spring already ?"

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Da vedere in Alta Risoluzione - To see in High Resolution

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Dall'auto con sacchetto di riso e finestrini coperti da teli mimetici. Imbeccata naturale, piccoli bruchi raccolti dalla femmina nel prato sottostante al masso/posatoio. Abruzzo - PNGSL

Northern Wheatear. From the car with rice bag and windows covered with camouflage cloths. Natural cue, small caterpillars collected by the female in the meadow below the boulder/perch Abruzzo - Gran Sasso Laga National Park

In my backyard

Corupá - Brazil.

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.

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

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caterpillar....

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

Chenille de Papilio Machaon (merci à www.flickr.com/photos/patrick_merminod/ pour l'info) d'environ 6 cm.

Lens: EF 100 f/2.8L IS macro (click to see all my photos with this lens)

1/100s f/16.0 100mm ISO 800

EF 50mm f/1.4 + 250D closeup lens

I found this small caterpillar rambling up the kitchen wall, so took a quick snap of it on a leaf outdoors before placing it back in the garden.

Swallowtail

Audierne, Finistère, Brittany, France

Peacock butterfly caterpillar

Tyria jacobaeae

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

Of Common crow butterfly

Clicked in my garden

My Photoblog- My Third Eye...!

California

I finally found one! Of course he was out in the open, in plain sight so it would have been hard Not to see him. He was traveling along a rusty hand rail at the speed of light and I had to keep backing up to get the shot. :) I don't know what kind he is, but he was very hairy..... probably hasn't been able to see his hair dresser because of the covid thing. I don't know. ;) I was at an aqueduct just north of Paw Paw West Virginia.

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Machaon caterpillar

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The only creature (that we can catch), so far, that I have had to say no to Evan holding due to the potential rash or irritation it can cause.