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Chuck Bryant

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Yeah, there's one old guy that's like, damn, Skippy.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

So those stomata, they can identify light and darkness, but caterpillars are basically blind.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

They're for sure colorblind.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

And they just, like I said, they can see sort of light and dark and shadow and stuff like that.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

But they are not like, they're not crawling around seeing things.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

They're kind of feeling their way around with those antennae that they have.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

But although those antennae only handle taste and smell, so I don't even know why I said that.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Yeah, you know, an inchworm, it is like a little accordion.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

And if you could figure out how to build and insert a tiny little, like, wooden reed in each spherical, that little thing might sound like an accordion as it moved.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

That'd be pretty neat.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Kind of cruel, too, I imagine.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Oh, like the actor Timothy Chateaupelos?

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Is that?

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

No, that's Timothy Chalamet.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Kind of looks like a shaggy cat.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

And speaking of Wooly Bully, you notice on caterpillars a lot of times those little hairs or little quills or spines.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Those are called โ€“ oh, man.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

We've even had scientists tell us how to pronounce that A-E.