More than 40, subscribers can't be wrong. Luckily, we live in the 21st century. Using modern imaging tech, like CT scans, we can peek inside the cocoon without disturbing this extremely delicate process. Tibi is a science journalist and co-founder of ZME Science. He writes mainly about emerging tech, physics, climate, and space. In his spare time, Tibi likes to make weird music on his computer and groom felines. Home Environment Animals. How caterpillars gruesomely transform into butterflies In short, for a caterpillar to turn into a butterfly it digests itself using enzymes triggered by hormones, before sleeping cells similar to stem cells grow into the body parts of the future butterfly.
January 22, Reading Time: 5 mins read. A tough transformation Image: Yahoo Our story begins with a hungry caterpillar who had just hatched from an egg. Get more science news like this You cannot stain individual tissues or proteins with coloured molecules, while still keeping the animal alive.
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Question: What is a medium brown caterpillar with darker triangles on its back? Answer: That sounds like a cutworm moth in the genus Xestia. Find more at fredsbughouse. A week ago, I found a four inch caterpillar colored purple with light greenish white belly and hisses when I picked it.
I live in Texas City, Texas and never seen such a beautiful caterpillar. I would like to know what kind of caterpillar is it.
I found a 2 inch green caterpillar with black head in a black butt with a spike sticking out of his butt in West Virginia I was just wondering what it is. Once i found a fuzzy grey caterpillar, it was large and very fat, and a few inches long. It had no spines or anything, and it was quite plain. Do you have any ideas on what it is? I came across what looked like a caterpillar on my storm door outside.
It had black leg with a white dot on each. It was completely clear like invisible other than the legs. Have you ever seen one of these. I found a caterpillar in Mexico that is brown with a black underside, black irregular markings, no hair or horns and the front end is bigger than the back end. I found a big caterpillar that is green and has no fur. It also has yellow spots surrounded by black. Can you please identify. I found a hairy caterpillar with red sports on her back and she was black what is she?
And I am keeping her in a butterfly habitat until she grows up. We found a green caterpillar in our backyard in North East Ohio and it has an orange mark on its back. Wondering what kind it is? I found a rusty colored, orangey, patterned small caterpillar.
Barbara -- It's likely a spicebush. They come in green, brown, orange, and shades in between. Found a caterpillar. He's 2. Has a little forked tail that sticks up. Nose and rear are lighter green. About 0. Wind Lake, Wisconsin. I found a caterpillar today light green, black v marks on body and pale red bands all around its body.
Found in North Wales, UK. I'm trying to find caterpillar I live in maryland and I am trying really hard because I want to take care of a caterpillar that is not posionus nor has spikes and is easy to take care of, any recommendations? We found Caterpillars in Ohio and it is small and black and yellow and fuzzy we are trying to find out what type of Caterpillar they are. I found a caterpillar that I didn't see on the list it's kind of light green, it has yellow spots, a blackhead, and black spots down its back it also has hair sticking out of it does anybody know what it is?
I found a caterpillar that is a glossy black color with two goldish white stripes on either side of its body. We captured a caterpillar that is about the size and shape of a pinkie finger and had no antennae, horns, spikes, etc. It is brown and speckled and looks remarkably like tree bark or a stick.
It sort of cocooned itself in a little bit of sticky silk stuff and stuck leaves together around itself. I found this caterpillar on my sidewalk. Its is a dark mixture of green and brown and has tan yellow strips. Ive tryed finding it but i havent found anything.
Plz help!!! I found a small green caterpillar with a yellowish head and small black spots I found a caterpillar that is a mixture of brown, orange, and green. It has four little tubular things on its back. I mistook it for a leaf at first. What kind could this be? I live near austin Texas, and found a small green caterpillar about 1. It has a small white horizontal stripe with a black one on top of it. It also has smaller and less bright stripes horizontally covering it, with a reddish brown head.
Does anyone have any idea what kind of butterfly or moth it might be? My daughter and I found a caterpillar Dark reddish Brn with red spikes. We wanted to know more so we could build it a habitat. I found a Green caterpillar with one long line on either side of it. It was eating my tomato leaves.
I have it in a woodland set -up aquarium,along with my woolly bears so cool! I live in upper northeast CT, and have never seen this type before. Can you help me find out about it? Our wooded area has some very large cocoon sacks filled with small black and green worms. We are concerned these critters may kill our trees. Any information would be helpful.
The "sacks" are usually about 2x4 inches and hang on flowering bushes. I fond a caterpillar that had brown fuzzy tenticals, what type of caterpillars are they? Also what do black and orange caterpillars eat?
Mine has orange head and but is a little fuzzy able to pet and has spots it looks kind 9f like a spitfire but its not i searched it so if i could have help that would be amazing it also was found on a grape vine. Mine is all brown and kinda looks like the eastern tint but its very different what is mine please help?
What kind is it?? I found a caterpillar no hair brown and camoflauged and it turned into a brown orange pupa and Ike a little more than a week later my mom found one while folding clothes. I found a brown caterpillar with two small horn s in its head and it looks like a tree bark. It also has 6 legs on the front and four nubs on the back. I live in Texas. I found a 1.
I'm in the valleys of California. It's dark brown on the top half and light tan on the bottom. On the sides it has a really thin whitish stripe down its whole body. In that same whitish color, it has small dots in little intervals above the whole stripe. I consulted a entomology friend of mine and they said that it was likely to be a moth but I'm not sure.
It doesn't have an hair. I have got no idea what he is Btw his head and bottoms a butterscotch color. I found an all white caterpillar about an inch and a half long on an immature Redwood tree near Santa Cruz CA. It is hairless and appears to have individually plated segaments on the abdomen. Do you know what it might be? After swimming, my girlfriend and I were laying on the grass just taking in some sun in my backyard.
All the sudden she jumps back and tells me not to move. She's looking at my leg and I'm pretty much freaking out at this point but she's insisting that I remain completely still. I could feel something on my leg but wasn't sure if it was her or whatever was on me.
I'm like, what the hell is on me and she says that she doesn't know exactly, but she said it could be a caterpillar of some sorts.
So I'm feeling a little better now and then she says that it looks way to big to be a caterpillar. So I was like get it the hell off me. She tells me to hold still for one more sec cuz she wants to take a picture of it and I'm in full on freak out mode at this point ready to jump up and do some African fast foot dance to get this thing off me.
I hear her camera flash sound and so I yell at her to get it off me. So she's moving in all slow and like lightning fast I feel her grab it and I feel this excruciatingly burning feeling like I've never felt before. I hear her say, "Oh my God, Alex! I didn't know anything at this point except how much pain I was in. I look down and don't see anything. I jump up real quick, frantically looking over everything and there's nothing there.
I walk up to the back door of the house to find my girlfriend sitting there in this dazed, shocked kind of upset yet smiling. She looks at me as I'm staring back at her for some kind of explanation as to what just happened and to see if she caught whatever was on me. She calmly says, "No, you dumbass! I have since nick-named it "The Monarch"! I found a white caterpillar with tiny black dots and sharp black spikes eating on what I believe to be an invasive Florida skunk vine.
I was just curious about what it might be. At its bottom were little yellow protuberant spots. At its head was a long black horn with little spikes coming off it. At the tip of its head were the same but larger yellow spots on the top and underside. It was large and thick and my cat brought it inside from somewhere. I revived a brown one with light brown and black stripes from the ice. I couldn't find it on the list and don't know what it eats. What is it called? The line looks as if it starts from the top of the head and ends all the way to the back end.
I found a caterpillar in my backyard and it has long and separated stripes and it was black and it tried burrowing into the dirt. Do you have any jdea what it might be. Heyo, I found this funky lil brown caterpillar not hairy in my house, and I want to know what type it is so I can feed it. It's mainly brown, with a lighter underbelly, and a dark brown top, with black patterns outlined in a sort of yellow brown color. Any help would be great. I would post a picture if I could, but I'm new to this site, and figuring out how it all works.
Hello, my friend caught a green caterpillar with pale yellowish lines and stripes, only in some parts of it's body, not whole. I don't know what kind of a caterpillar it is. Please tell if it's harmful or not and please tell what species is it. I need help i dont wath eat my caterpillar his color is yellow and black if someone nose just tell my. It is a light green color with purple squares or something on its back. We are in Oklahoma.
I live in Barcelona, Spain and yesterday, found two beautiful bright green caterpillars with black stripes and Brigit orange dots, amongst my parsley plant. They look to be black swallowtail butterfly caterpillars. Is that possible in Europe?
And shall I just leave them in the parsley with a strong stick to cling to? I saw a Mourning Cloak caterpillar on the sidewalk when I was very young. I was afraid to touch it because I thought it might sting, but I didn't want it to get smashed so I let it crawl onto a piece of paper and carried it home.
It pupated soon after thank goodness because I didn't know what kind of leaves it ate and became a butterfly which we let go in our yard once its wings dried off. One of the happiest experiences of my life. My son saw a brown fuzzy caterpillar that looks like a twig and has itchy hairs now there are loads of them on a bush. What are they and will it become a butterfly or a moth.
John Gladstone. We found a large Catapillar in my sons backyard here in San Diego. I have some good pictures of it and would like to be able to identify exactly what type of Catapillar it is and what type of moth or butterfly it will turn into. Where do I send these pictures and get an answer to my question? I found a caterpillar that's all orange and fuzzy. I haven't touched it so i don't know if it tingles or what. I found a red striped caterpillar, with spikes.
It's green, too. It only has stripes on its sides, and has very long antennas. It tingles when I touch it, but not hairy. Is it poisonous? It has little bumps everywhere too. I think it's scared of me. Should I not touch it? We found quite a few caterpillars, all the same, when we were hop picking.
Quite big and furry, yellow with black uniform markings across it. I am from Punjab,India and found a three different caterpillars in the previous two weeks but am unable to find their info , not even from net. Hi : I live in CT. It has been brutally humid. Tonight I saw a huge, brownish black caterpillar outside on my stone steps. And I mean huge, as thought it was a thick baby snake at first!
It had a large whitish 'helmet' on the top of it's head with a huge oval black dot in the middle of the white 'helmet'.
When I touched it, it would flick very fast from side to side in a circular motion. It was very thick around and very long, about 3" long. NO hairs and super smooth. I took pix and enlarged them to see a million round white circles on it's body and a rear end horn. It seemed slow moving and docile. I picked it up with my hands and it did not try to bite me and just stayed still on my hand, clinging with it's suction cup legs.
I brought him to the brush and trees on my property and gently let him go on the grass. He stayed there. I checked on him about 20 minutes later and it was gone. I have never seen this type of huge, huge caterpillar at night or any time in my lifetime here in Connecticut.
I have pix but can't upload one here? Do you know what this seemingly rare caterpillar is here in East Hampton CT with lots of farms and woods around me? And what kind of moth or butterfly would it turn into? Thank you ever so much!! Best regards, Barb. I have just found a caterpillar that was dark in colour, no hair, no distinguishable head and three black spots down each side at the front of the body and about three inches long, does anybody know what it might be? I have a big tree next to my porch and it has about white caterpillars with black heads what kind are these and what will they turn into?
I found a group of yellow and black caterpillars with a main color of peach-cream color what are their names and what are they going to turn into. Love this website. I used to raise caterpillars. It was always exciting to see what came out of the cocoon or chrysalis. I have what I thought were Papilio Machaon caterpillars, however my boyfriend is convinced they are Papilio Polyxenes, is there any sure way to tell the difference between the caterpillars?
Found a big greeb catepillar with tiny white horns throughout its body and yellow feet. Ontario canada. I found a brown striped caterpillar, it seems to have a retractable tail on July 26, I found a light yellow ish tan Catapillar. I have found 3 in the past 3 days. It has black dots on the top left and right going straight to the butt end from the head end.
It has little white furs. What kind is it. I can tell that it will become a moth but unsure as to what type. My daughter just found a giant green caterpillar this afternoon at the base of a dogwood tree in the grass. It isnt really moving, just kind of limp. Not sure if its injured, dying or what. We put it in our caterpillar house with some leaves and sticks. Silk worm moth? Luna moth? Its about degrees here today.
We found strange looking catapillers today by Johnson Creek and The Spring Water Trail they had black and white stripes and no fur or spines of any kind but they did have thin almost invisible clear hair and no white stripes and one was bigger than the other one they were very interesting I even have a picture of them.
I just found a Caterpillar that's brown with very big bright green spots, the poop coming out of this thing is huge for a caterpillar!
I found three of these smooth gold and black caterpillars on a kale-looking weed and have never seen this kind before. About 3 cm long. Can you identify it for me? I found This caterpillar has a flat head jutting out of its grey body. It's belly is pink. If you look at it from the top,you can see small white dots on its back. On it's back, it has a greenly blue sting shaped body part, and a yellow paste smeared onto its bottom.
I know it's not a slug as there is no trail of slime, but it moves slowly like a caterpillar, and if touched, will immediately become a small coil shape. Its back is bumpy. Please tell me, have I found a new species? It also has a white head on the cocoon. I hope this is enough info. I believe it has just settled into the cocoon and is still very young. I found two little guys in the woods of Utah. Main body color black, light brown stripes go across their backs.
Bottom of the catipillar is light brown. I've been raising them with my swallowtails, monarchs and painted ladies. Marine Biology. Electrical Engineering. Computer Science. Medical Science. Writing Tutorials. Performing Arts. Visual Arts.
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