Josh Clark
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It just wants to eat.
So it's designed essentially as an eating machine.
And if you want to see something just astounding, go look up a caterpillar egg or butterfly egg.
I don't know which one you'd call it, but they look like little, have you ever seen Vaseline glass?
They look like little like ornate Vaseline glass vases.
I mean, everything about butterflies are just great.
I'm on board with them fully.
Each one suddenly turns into Augustus Gloop and just keeps going from there.
That's exactly right.
So I said that it molts.
Apparently it molts five different times.
And the reason why it molts is because it eats so much it outgrows its skin.
It has a mechanism where it releases an enzyme.
There's a hormone that says, hey, you're getting a little – your clothes are getting a little tight.
Maybe it's time to molt.