Chuck Bryant
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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.
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.
They only have six genuine legs, meaning that they have segments and joints.
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.
And at the end of those little pro legs, they have little suction cups, little hooks, basically.
Is it a crochet, do you think?
I think so, yeah.
Yeah, they're called crochets.