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Chuck Bryant

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Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

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

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

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

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

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.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Oh, yeah, for sure.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

I didn't even consider that.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

That is really hard to process.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

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

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

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

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

The caterpillar is six-legged.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

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.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Those are not real legs.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

They only have six genuine legs, meaning that they have segments and joints.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

The rest of those are called prolegs, and there are a lot of those, and they move all up the length of the abdomen of the caterpillar.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

And at the end of those little pro legs, they have little suction cups, little hooks, basically.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Is it a crochet, do you think?

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

I think so, yeah.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Or a crochet?

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Yeah, they're called crochets.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Or crotchets.