Josh Clark
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And it all goes to that trachea, like I said, and the trachea just diffuses it to the tissue throughout the body.
They have blood.
It's called hemolymph, like most insects' blood, but it's not used to transport oxygen.
It transports things like hormones that trigger molting and things like that, but the oxygen just diffuses throughout the body.
Yeah, I mean, probably.
If you're sticking wood in the tiny breathing holes of a caterpillar, I don't think you would appreciate that.
Don't try that.
By the way, Chuck, did I tell you that Caterpillar is from the old French Chateaupelos, which means shaggy cat?
Timothy Shaggy Cat would be that name.
But apparently they think it was the โ is it the Wooly Bully caterpillar that inspired that?
They think that was the original Shaggy Cat, and it just kind of caught on from there.
But that's where caterpillar comes from.
That's what I think it is, yeah.
It's a tie-in.
It can get much worse than that, too.
Yeah, if you've ever touched a caterpillar, that's what I was referring to earlier.