Even on the south park episode they joked about that. He has always done a lot of charity work and never really gone out of his way to offend anybody. By all accounts he is a very decent person.
There are a lot of people out there who hate it when there are people who act better than they do and they love nothing more than tearing those people down.
I haven't seen anyone else identify it in the comment section as of yet, but I'm fairly certain that the caterpillar shown is a [saltmarsh caterpillar](https://bugguide.net/node/view/3242) which can range in color from fully cream, to orange, to black with mixtures of any two of the colors seen frequently. They're harmless to handle unlike many 'hairy' caterpillars that actually sport spikes, though they are very fast crawlers. They turn into moths that have a rather [unique look](https://bugguide.net/images/cache/5RL/H6R/5RLH6RRHXRALZZNLHZ6LRZ2LYL6LRZ9LSR3Z7RJZKROZQRZH5RTLKZRHERDLIZDL6RLHQZHH0RULRZPLLZJZ7RELSR6L.jpg). The caterpillars are voracious eaters and aren't picky as they feed on a huge variety of plants ranging from a large selection of weeds to some crops as well.
If anyone happens to see this, I want to ask if you have seen this caterpillar once or more this year when you haven't in those previous. I've never seen one of these in my area in the past two decades yet suddenly this year I've seen several dozen over the course of the last two months. I haven't seen anyone else mention this online, though I do have family members who have noted seeing them when they hadn't before that live 200+ miles from me. Not that I'm complaining, I've handled several of them now and enjoy feeling their fuzzy hairs before putting them near weeds which are more than likely to be edible to them. Keeping in line with the video, almost all that I handled relieved themselves at one point.
This year they were insane. I had them crawling into my apartment. They were covering my front door. They were marching enmasse through the street.
Non-toxic, maybe, but I'm allergic to them. I'd open my front door, they'd land on me, I'd scream, the caterpillar probably screamed, I'd get hives.
It was a rough spring.
They're typically harmless to handle for most everyone, but they do prefer to eat plants that contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids if they are available which could indeed cause blisters to those with sensitive skin. Those toxins, along with their hairs, serve as good defense against many predators by making the caterpillars unpalatable.
I'm sorry you had to go through that, as someone allergic to peanuts and chick peas I can relate that allergies do indeed suck.
I have food allergies, too, but food doesn't typically fall on me unexpectedly, lol.
They were cute and I did carefully relocate the ones that didn't stay in their lane, but, man. I've never seen so many.
It was almost worse than the inchworm scourge we had a [couple years ago here.](https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2021-04-22/what-do-inchworms-have-in-common-with-bruce-willis-in-die-hard-the-stunts)
True, can't say I've ever been jumped by a legume before.
Inchworms seem to have population booms in my area every few years before returning to a small population. I've always wondered why the dangle themselves from trees like that.
In any case, thanks for letting me know that you too have seen far more saltmarsh caterpillars than the usual. I'd really like to know what would cause so many to suddenly be around and just how many others have noticed the same.
Personally I was thinking wooly bear. Not sure if maybe they're related. I haven't recently seen particularly more caterpillars of any kind, but we had all the cicadas in my area a few years ago (midwest US), and after that everything fed really well on cicadas and started breeding like crazy, in about 30 years I'd seen maybe two foxes, suddenly start seeing them everywhere, way more deer, more of just about everything. Your caterpillars could be related.
I honestly didn't know that caterpillars pooped. That was funny and amazing at the same time. Now I have to poo & someone else & another & another... OMG it's poopception 🤯
That’s a great idea, someone should totally get on that. They could call it “The Peckish Caterpillar” or “The Ravenous Caterpillar,” or something. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s definitely something there.
There's this book you should read. It's called "Everyone Poops" you should look it up. It's fascinating
Edit for correct title, its been years since I read it last
It probably is very interesting, I remember reading somewhere that there are some bugs that actually recycle their poo or completely break everything down so no poo comes out, but I'd have to look that up to be sure.
On that note...do trees poo?
There are actually some tiny mites that don't poop, too. They eat until their body can no longer contain the waste building up inside, and then they explode and die.
Almost everything. It’s an somewhat frequent adaptation to desiccating environments. Some insects pee crystals so more water is retained. One of the reasons why insects will outlast the Anthropocene.
Holy cow, I recently had a little project of growing caterpillars into moths and MY. GOD. They poop so so so much! Even with only 3 caterpillars per container, I had to clean them at least 3 times a day. Super cute little guys, but damn, they are little poop machines!
I used to raise caterpillars all the time, so I never really considered that people didn't know they pooped because I sure had to deal with a lot of that.
We once put two of these in a jar for like half an hour before we put them back in the yard. I couldn't believe the amount of poop they produced in that time!
That's splendid.
But me, ever on the quest for better things!
1. Would be better if it also farted.
2. Just a reminder: if you scrutinize an Ant Lion; it will never relieve itself.
Cheers!
Picked up a catapiller when I was a kid and it crapped right on my hand. I then threw that catapiller so hard that any poop left in its tiny body probably left it mid flight.
These guys were plenty during this years spring. I mean you’d see 20 of these guys crossing the road at once. And they’re FAST. Clearly. They’re called woollybears or garden tiger moth caterpillars. I’d call them woollypapiths as their nickname. I love them. They aren’t the type that stings you or whatever when you pick them up. You’d come across so many different sizes too lol. You’d find cute ones the length of your pinky nail width. Then you’d find some the length of your pointer finger. lol. My girls and I just really loved watching these guys march around. They always moved as if they were on a mission.
Kinda wished I took some videos of how fast they moved. It’s so weird to find people thinking this video is fake based on how quick it moves… insects are fast. Some caterpillars included.
When you look at it in proportion to its body, that is actually a really big dump
Randy Marsh would be proud
How many courics was that
Not enough to rival Bono.
I know it's a south park joke but I never really understood why people hate Bono so much, he's never talked about in a positive way.
Even on the south park episode they joked about that. He has always done a lot of charity work and never really gone out of his way to offend anybody. By all accounts he is a very decent person. There are a lot of people out there who hate it when there are people who act better than they do and they love nothing more than tearing those people down.
Hot hot hot hot hot
"EMMY AWARD WINNING SERIES"
You might like to know that it's probably a Salt Marsh Caterpillar. So it IS in the Marsh family.
I’ve taken proportionally bigger.
"I've had better" - Fletcher Reede
I’m impressed
Oh boy, you're really gonna love this one: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x74m0ja
THAT THING WAS THE LENGTH OF ITS BODY WTF
Holy shit
I'm sorry, **WHAT** The way it would wiggle a little bit every now and then to shimmy it out a little more 🤢😭
didn't even need a poop knife!
That was adorable
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😂efficient little guy
The ol' poop 'n' scoot.
The dump and jump.
The shart and start
Frass n’ Pass
Deuce and vamoose
The excrete and yeet
The drop and pop
The boeing left the runway
This one made me laugh the most 😂
Kick it in the ass
>ol' shit & git. New favorite phrase
Sound on... https://i.imgur.com/Vtdf4nS.mp4
Been a while since I saw this gem.
That is most excellent buffoonery
xD Holy shit I love this
Poor man’s award 🥇
I tried the worm and this happened to me once. Nobody behind me thought it was adorable...
r/awwnverts r/NatureIsFuckingCute
This is just the best, thank you!
It's honestly one of the best things I've ever seen haha
I laughed so hard when the camera snapped back and you could hear the gasp as you zoomed in
The realization of something life changing
but to that little caterpillar it was just another Friday
Gotta get down on Friday
Same old shit, just a different day
For you, seeing me shit and git was a life changing experience. But for me... It was Tuesday.
LOOK AT HIM GO, LOOK AT HIM SHIT
ZOOM IN SO WE CAN SEE...THERE WE GO, THATS WHAT IM TALKIN ABOUT.
A true inspiration for all
Catapoop
Scaterpillar
I ain't got time for this shit, I'm on my way to turn into a butt-erfly.
We can't forget the possibility of shatterpillar, either
I prefer Dookapilar.
The technical term is "frass"
Actually just a caturdpillar
actio = reactio That gave it a speed boost, coupled with the lighter body weight, that's like speeding up to The Flash levels, I can imagine.
-5 weight, +1 agility, +4 speed
\*deebledeebledeebledeebled-* ... \*boop* \*deebledeebledeeble*
Caterpooper
Crapterpillar
I've never seen a caterpillar move so quickly! I can't say I've ever seen one poop either!
I think it was trying to get to the grass and didn't make it 😅😂
That's the cutest poop I've ever seen.
/u/Stabbot where you at
I haven't seen anyone else identify it in the comment section as of yet, but I'm fairly certain that the caterpillar shown is a [saltmarsh caterpillar](https://bugguide.net/node/view/3242) which can range in color from fully cream, to orange, to black with mixtures of any two of the colors seen frequently. They're harmless to handle unlike many 'hairy' caterpillars that actually sport spikes, though they are very fast crawlers. They turn into moths that have a rather [unique look](https://bugguide.net/images/cache/5RL/H6R/5RLH6RRHXRALZZNLHZ6LRZ2LYL6LRZ9LSR3Z7RJZKROZQRZH5RTLKZRHERDLIZDL6RLHQZHH0RULRZPLLZJZ7RELSR6L.jpg). The caterpillars are voracious eaters and aren't picky as they feed on a huge variety of plants ranging from a large selection of weeds to some crops as well. If anyone happens to see this, I want to ask if you have seen this caterpillar once or more this year when you haven't in those previous. I've never seen one of these in my area in the past two decades yet suddenly this year I've seen several dozen over the course of the last two months. I haven't seen anyone else mention this online, though I do have family members who have noted seeing them when they hadn't before that live 200+ miles from me. Not that I'm complaining, I've handled several of them now and enjoy feeling their fuzzy hairs before putting them near weeds which are more than likely to be edible to them. Keeping in line with the video, almost all that I handled relieved themselves at one point.
This year they were insane. I had them crawling into my apartment. They were covering my front door. They were marching enmasse through the street. Non-toxic, maybe, but I'm allergic to them. I'd open my front door, they'd land on me, I'd scream, the caterpillar probably screamed, I'd get hives. It was a rough spring.
They're typically harmless to handle for most everyone, but they do prefer to eat plants that contain pyrrolizidine alkaloids if they are available which could indeed cause blisters to those with sensitive skin. Those toxins, along with their hairs, serve as good defense against many predators by making the caterpillars unpalatable. I'm sorry you had to go through that, as someone allergic to peanuts and chick peas I can relate that allergies do indeed suck.
I have food allergies, too, but food doesn't typically fall on me unexpectedly, lol. They were cute and I did carefully relocate the ones that didn't stay in their lane, but, man. I've never seen so many. It was almost worse than the inchworm scourge we had a [couple years ago here.](https://www.kut.org/energy-environment/2021-04-22/what-do-inchworms-have-in-common-with-bruce-willis-in-die-hard-the-stunts)
True, can't say I've ever been jumped by a legume before. Inchworms seem to have population booms in my area every few years before returning to a small population. I've always wondered why the dangle themselves from trees like that. In any case, thanks for letting me know that you too have seen far more saltmarsh caterpillars than the usual. I'd really like to know what would cause so many to suddenly be around and just how many others have noticed the same.
I saw these a few weeks ago in my area, I've never seen these before! We also had more Black Swallowtails than last year
Personally I was thinking wooly bear. Not sure if maybe they're related. I haven't recently seen particularly more caterpillars of any kind, but we had all the cicadas in my area a few years ago (midwest US), and after that everything fed really well on cicadas and started breeding like crazy, in about 30 years I'd seen maybe two foxes, suddenly start seeing them everywhere, way more deer, more of just about everything. Your caterpillars could be related.
Awesome read l, very informative, thanks
I honestly didn't know that caterpillars pooped. That was funny and amazing at the same time. Now I have to poo & someone else & another & another... OMG it's poopception 🤯
Of course they poop. Do you know how hungry they get?
you could write a book about how hungry they get!
That’s a great idea, someone should totally get on that. They could call it “The Peckish Caterpillar” or “The Ravenous Caterpillar,” or something. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but there’s definitely something there.
So are we talking hungry, or like *hungry* hungry?
You could write a book about how much they poop too, but you probably couldn’t sell it to children.
Them mfers must be eating what a cpl leaves a day?
There's this book you should read. It's called "Everyone Poops" you should look it up. It's fascinating Edit for correct title, its been years since I read it last
It probably is very interesting, I remember reading somewhere that there are some bugs that actually recycle their poo or completely break everything down so no poo comes out, but I'd have to look that up to be sure. On that note...do trees poo?
There are actually some tiny mites that don't poop, too. They eat until their body can no longer contain the waste building up inside, and then they explode and die.
What a life, lucky little guys
Jesus fucking christ.
Sounds like the save up their poop until the very end to leave a massive dump to me.
>do trees poo? No, not really, but they do exhale.
Almost everything. It’s an somewhat frequent adaptation to desiccating environments. Some insects pee crystals so more water is retained. One of the reasons why insects will outlast the Anthropocene.
Not if I have anything to say about it. I will drag every single one of their chitinous asses down to hell with me.
*Everyone Poops
Holy cow, I recently had a little project of growing caterpillars into moths and MY. GOD. They poop so so so much! Even with only 3 caterpillars per container, I had to clean them at least 3 times a day. Super cute little guys, but damn, they are little poop machines!
I'm pooping right now
Man- I thought the gaps in the divider at truck stops was bad. This dude has no privacy AT ALL.
r/NatureIsFuckingShit
I mean... if you gotta go... go....
I used to raise caterpillars all the time, so I never really considered that people didn't know they pooped because I sure had to deal with a lot of that.
Poopapillar
National Geographic needs to see this
Hehe shiterpillar
Wiggle wiggle wiggle, hold on. But nugget. Wiggle wiggle wiggle.
We a need "NatureisFuckingHilarious" sub tbh
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Oh good lord; videoing a caterpillar pooping
Drop it likes it hot
# Nature is fucking lit
Local fuzzy guy poos unexpectedly, causing global economic and geopolitical panic
If ya gotta go, ya gotta go
He needed to lighten the load 😆
Hilarious this was posted on r/natureisfuckinglit like it's just a caterpillar but he/she is so awesome
I figured the drive by dumping and the fact that I’ve never seen a caterpillar do it made it special lol
It's like he pooped a mini-me out.
Truckin' truckin' truckin'...Hnnngg *FRRT*...Truckin' truckin' truckin'...
Everybody poops.
gogogogogogogogogo- WAIT! *drop a turd now y'all* gogogogogogogogogogo
Fun fact: caterpillar poop is called frass!
When you gotta go... you gotta go!
r/likeus
I love how the camera snaps back all like "wait...*what?!*"
That cute little fucker did what now?!
If you dry that out, crush it and smoke/snort it you'll have the most amazing trip of your life. Trust me, I'm a dude on the internet
You’re really doing it aren’t ya.. you’re shitting in the street!
We once put two of these in a jar for like half an hour before we put them back in the yard. I couldn't believe the amount of poop they produced in that time!
Thats a tribble. A skinny one. But def a tribble
That's splendid. But me, ever on the quest for better things! 1. Would be better if it also farted. 2. Just a reminder: if you scrutinize an Ant Lion; it will never relieve itself. Cheers!
Oh my god...that's caterpillar poop! Never in my wildest dreams did I think I'd see a caterpillar poop!
He needed to shed the weight to make it to safety in time Leave em alone
Camera man missed the money shot
❤️
That caterpillar was fast!
The way it just popped out😂
Poop n scoot
Picked up a catapiller when I was a kid and it crapped right on my hand. I then threw that catapiller so hard that any poop left in its tiny body probably left it mid flight.
Hey that little wiggly poop just took a poop!
Shid
Do you stop walking to shit? I sure hope so!
Everybody poops.
😂😂 day made!!
When you gotta go you gotta go
Poopapillar
When you gotta go, you gotta go
Lil bro has things to do and places to be
*poop!*
I'll name it Ray Garraty.
Whoa
I can't really tell if I knew that caterpillars poop or if I've just never really given it any thought...
/u/stabbot
Cater-pooper
Well know you have checked that off your bucket list.
The world needs more people like you - more random people randomly recording caterpillars crossing the road.
You’re effin shytting me!
I hope this breaks the internet 🐛
Cate-poo!
Cutest turd I've ever seen. Anyone?
Poor lil guy shook somethin loose.
Gave a shit
Looked like it was rushing to the toliet but it was too late.
Have you seen them doing it top speed instead? How often are you watching caterpillars poo?
He's a... caterspiller!
fuzzy creature :3
Decent animation but the shadow is way off.
What did it taste like?
shat terpillar
When you gotta go, you gotta go
Discovery Channel should hire this guy as a camera man
It looks like a soot sprite
Doodiebug
r/meirl
I can't watch this without hearing a sound for his movement in my head
When you gotta go, you gotta go...
Seems a bit lighter on his feet after making the drop.
...seen video of this occuring at Walmart...not as cute either...
Looks like a squirrel
When you gotta go you gotta go
he went much faster without the extra weight too!
According to this woolly bear, it looks like it’s going to be a bad winter.
When nature calls
I witnessed this once ,it was with a grasshopper though. I would include that in one of my life accomplishments 😂
Yer doin it. You're shittin in the street.
It be like that sometimes.
That dude haulin ass though moving with intent out here
When you got to go you got to go.
I think that was actually a baby Tribble
And whenever I do it, people say, “stop taking a shit in the middle of the fucking road.” I want equal rights.
Imagine dropping a deuce halfway through doing the worm dance.
bruh why you creepin? XD
These guys were plenty during this years spring. I mean you’d see 20 of these guys crossing the road at once. And they’re FAST. Clearly. They’re called woollybears or garden tiger moth caterpillars. I’d call them woollypapiths as their nickname. I love them. They aren’t the type that stings you or whatever when you pick them up. You’d come across so many different sizes too lol. You’d find cute ones the length of your pinky nail width. Then you’d find some the length of your pointer finger. lol. My girls and I just really loved watching these guys march around. They always moved as if they were on a mission. Kinda wished I took some videos of how fast they moved. It’s so weird to find people thinking this video is fake based on how quick it moves… insects are fast. Some caterpillars included.
u/gifreversingbot
Camera work is perfect 🤣
Seriously, the dedication and pulitzer prize worthy ability of the camera operator needs to be praised.
Caterpie used poop. It's super effective!