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Josh Clark

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Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

It was at one time like not very nice, but now everybody says it.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Oh, really?

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

It even shows up in like PG-13 movies.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Oh, no, no, no.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

It's still not nice to say, but it's not like, you know, a horrid thing to say like it used to be.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

No, no.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

I don't know why they didn't identify them as inchworms, but that's what they're talking about.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

They can move in little arches where they bring their front and their back together, making a mound out of their middle, their abdomen, and then they stretch the front out.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

And then they bring the back up, and then they stretch the front out.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

And that's what an inchworm does.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

And that's basically one of two ways, the other way for a caterpillar to move.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Either as a wave undulating...

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

There's a lot of really cool videos of caterpillars moving or inching along.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

And it's really neat to see when you watch a close-up of a centipede.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

I keep wanting to say centipede, but that's definitely a different animal.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Caterpillars, pro-legs moving as they attach themselves.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

Like you said, they have a suction cup.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

They just attach themselves to the branch or whatever that they're walking on.

Stuff You Should Know
Caterpillars: Nature's Magicians

And if you watch it in close enough… Detail?