Josh Clark

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.

There's so many different species of caterpillar.

Because, again, we're talking about moths and butterflies.

They're not just all the same thing.

That they've developed all sorts of really interesting means of defense.

Yeah.

One of the ways they say the best defense is shooting your poop out.

And there's a type of caterpillar that does that.

I think it's the silver-spotted skipper.

And skipper is basically a type of butterfly.

And it shoots its waste called frass, its poop, as far as five feet from itself in order to keep predators from being able to track it back to its source.

If you're really good at jumping, that's what they say to you.

Yeah.