Lulu Miller

Odor.

And then.

One month later.

The moth emerges.

And now we're the drum roll.

We're ready for the drum roll.

I think it's amazing that a caterpillar can have an experience, go into its chrysalis, five weeks pass,

emerge as a seemingly different organism and that it still can recall experiences that happened to it when it was a caterpillar.

The answer to this question is we do not know.

In fact, one of her colleagues... And I was talking to Doug the other day, and he said that he had gotten an email from a guy who was... I'm not exactly sure what flavor of Christian, but had...

he had gone into the whole resurrection thing.

And he felt like this was, you know, when he ascended, that he wondered if he would then be able to remember his life on Earth.

Martha's daughter is actually an audio reporter, and she captured the whole adventure on tape, which was first published in the audio magazine Signal Hill.

And it was so beautiful.

We featured it on our feed last year.

The episode is called Caterpillar Roadshow, and you can find it on Radiolab or on SignalHill.fm.

Hi, I'm Gabby.

I'm from San Francisco, and here are the staff credits.

Radiolab is hosted by Lula Miller and Latif Nasser.

Soren Wheeler is our executive editor.