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Chuck Bryant

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Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Yeah, it was pretty horrifying to read that and, frankly, disappointing.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

But there's also a brand in Australia.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

A brand of caterpillars.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

They lay their eggs in anthills, and when they come out, they will eat those ants.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

But aside from that, in the Hawaiian, they, like you said, are strictly herbivores.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

And they are using those leaves also to camouflage themselves.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Um, they have a lot of great, um, mechanisms to keep this not quite octopus level, but they seem like they're, you know, I don't know if it's wrong to use the word smart, but they know to, to like feed under leaves.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

So birds can't see them.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Uh, they also have some natural, uh, camouflage.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Like sometimes those eyes can look like, uh, the fake eyes can look like snakes.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Did you see that one?

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Yeah, it looks like a snake.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Yeah, like a lot of them are solitary caterpillars.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

But there is, what was the one in particular that traveling groups?

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Yeah, I get the feeling those are the ones that might do the old snake one, too.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Let's do it.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

That explains that old saying, you ain't nothing but caterpillar frass.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

I never knew what they meant by that.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

And that's one of the things they do, like several other things, which is it all sort of falls in the umbrella of I don't want anyone to know I'm like even here.