Chuck Bryant

And they said, wow, I really like eating.

Maybe I should just keep eating for the rest of my life.

Yeah.

It tries to outgrow that suit that it's wearing.

Yeah.

These molts are called instars.

Did you say that?

Yeah, yeah.

So five instars in between molts, like you said, all it's doing is just eating, trying to get a larger suit size.

But here's another cool fact, is they believe that not only do caterpillars have a memory

that lasts like a molt or two, but they even think there are researchers at Georgetown that have sort of proven that, I don't know how you sort of prove something, but they feel pretty good about the fact that they think that a butterfly remembers being a caterpillar.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

I didn't even consider that.

That is really hard to process.

Yeah, I get the idea that the inner body movement through that body tube never stops.

It's just a conveyor belt almost of food coming in and poop leaving.

Yeah.

The caterpillar is six-legged.

If you're like, whoa, whoa, whoa, Chuck, I've seen a caterpillar or two in my day, and they have tons of little legs.

Those are not real legs.