Josh Clark

They tie the snails to, say, like a twig or a leaf or something using spinnerets.

They have silk-producing organs.

And they'll tie the snail, the whole shell and all, to like a twig so the snail can't get away.

And then they climb into the shell and eat the snail alive.

I don't like that particular kind of caterpillar, but I like all the rest.

Yeah, they tie it down and eat it.

So awful.

Imagine it just coming into your house, too, and you're like, please no, and you have no escape, and that's that.

Yeah, it looks like a bright green snake.

And apparently they'll arrange themselves sometimes to make it look like a long snake.

Like 300 caterpillars will get together and line up.

And it's like, wow, there's a snake.

No, it's a line of caterpillars.

The gregarious caterpillars.

Yes.

I think those are swallowtails, and they might be gregarious, yeah.

So I say we take a break, Chuck, and then we'll come back, and I propose that we talk some more about caterpillars.

Okay, so you mentioned a couple of things that they do to protect themselves.

Camouflage, just eating a little bit on the underside of a leaf.

There's a lot of other things that they can do, too.