Josh Clark

And so that releases an enzyme that basically dissolves its attachment to the exoskeleton.

And then the new, bigger version pops out of the old exoskeleton, walks away, and guess what it does immediately after?

It starts eating again.

And it does that five times in its larval stage as a caterpillar.

That's the period of its life between molts.

Yeah, they've done at least one study that showed that if they trained it to avoid certain smells as one of its last instars, it will remember that as an adult butterfly.

It'll avoid those same smells.

That's pretty cool.

Because as you'll see, what happens in the chrysalis is so mind-bending and nuts that the idea that it can remember anything is pretty amazing.

So let's talk about the body.

Like you said, it has mouth parts.

Very important because it eats, eats, eats.

And the rest of its body is essentially a storage facility for that food that it eats and that it breaks down and stores.

Essentially, it's fat.

They're very fatty.

That's my impression, too.

I'm going with crochet.

No, no.

That's all over.

It's like douchebag now.