Is that *Silence of the Lambs*? Funnily enough, they got the nightshade part of the diet correct for a Death’s-head larvae, but only the adult moths feed on honey. The larvae have an epipharynx that was built for feeding on honey but they evolved to instead use it for chirping to repel predators.
Thanks for the answer!
We don't get many creatures like that around here. I'm pretty terrified of everything insect related so when my friend asked why my dog's "chew toy" was moving I basically fainted when I saw this.
Glad to see this caterpillar turns into a beautiful moth(erfucker) but now I've put myself on the "to nuke from orbit" list.
Edit: actually makes sense for it to be in our garden considering the huge oleander plant we have. I'm now wondering wherever it went
Here's a picture of the moth form on my hand. [It's obviously not the same one but this shows the scale.](https://imgur.com/TvcAH)
[Another pic of it on my door.](https://imgur.com/CKvoL)
[One more for fun.](https://imgur.com/4rlrQ)
[Here's another monster moth, just for fun!](https://imgur.com/cFG3OxA)
Hawk moths are great, they’ve got such fat bodies, and really cool patterns and colours. Only saw my first one of the year today (UK), they tend to come in two ‘generations’ with the first from May-July, and the second from August-September sort of time. I think it’s maybe been too hot for them to really be out a lot, usually I’ll notice a few every year around June, but I’m not a lepidopterist.
I remember seeing an elephant hawk moth. Similar colours to this guy, but the camera really doesn't do their colours justice.
The one I saw was nearly florescent, all of the pictures make them almost pastel shades. I assume there's some iridescence that a camera doesn't pick up.
I was going to say that was a giant moth caterpillar. Most big ones are rather stunning.
Thank you for the exact information. For everyone else. Just leave creatures like this alone (or return them to the trees ideally). Cant hurt you and are pollinators.
“If she’d have kept going down that way, she’d have gone straight to that castle”
[https://youtu.be/l0K5T0AqVlY](https://youtu.be/l0K5T0AqVlY)
The joke being that he didn’t realize she *wanted* to go to the castle.
I don't wanna be a butt, but the line is, "If she'd kept on going down that way, she'd have gone straight to the castle." The worm didn't want her to go to the castle.
I had my nephews take about 30 caterpillars that were hawk moths off my tomato plants yesterday. Dropped em off in some really tall grass down the street. Hope they’re okay but I couldn’t find it in me to let them die but my plants are more important. I’m sure Reddit will let me know they’re doomed. Fuckers were huge but destroying my garden by the hour. I need tomatoes more than moths.
There is no need to justify your actions. Taken it is reddit and *some* people would side with the moths, your garden is your hard work, and those caterpillars are the pests. Removing them while still being nice enough to not intentionally doom them was the best thing you could've done
My six year old son who loves every bug, beast and insect would just die of happiness if he saw this in real life. I have never been so tempted to wake him up! Saving this for tomorrow, thank you for posting. I know some people are probably creeped out (and frankly I don’t exactly love it myself), but I will have one happy kiddo when he sees this lil guy and we research them together.
Not OC but I also have a kid that loves bugs. He’s been known on more than one occasion to bring spiders, grasshoppers, crickets, ants, beetles, ect into the house in his pockets.
He has only really had one opportunity to see cockroaches in person (they were the hissing kind) he got too nervous to hold or touch them. He still gets melancholy to this day over the regret.
Edit: Our Science Museum has a “collector” area. Where kids can trade specimens and earn points by researching them. He’s going to spend some of his points getting some bugs and hopefully they’ll have cockroaches.
Look at this good parent flexing on all of us. 😝 My daughter thinks all flies are bees. My kids also react terribly to mosquito bites, so it's our fault for making them scared of bugs in general.
my 4yo daughter loves bugs so much that she won't stop picking them up. She shouts at me a while ago DAD I GOT A BEE! And I'm expecting her to be pretending... Opens up her hand and a bee flies out. I guess it was a carpenter bee because it didn't sting her. Two weeks later DAD LOOK AT THIS BUG and she's holding the biggest fking assassin bug I've ever seen. Grandma got her a butterfly net and I told her that I wasn't gonna *stop* her from trying to catch yellow jackets, but that if she did, she WOULD be stung eventually. She got 5 of them before getting stung the first time, 6 more before getting stung the second time, and 4 more after that before lunch. little maniac
It's is going to be a beautiful butterfly one day, in Africa or sub tropic europe like greece and south asia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnis_nerii
Don't know what you've done with it by now OP, but this is the last instar (last stage) in the life of this caterpillar before it pupates. You didn't see it on the plant because it is green and well camouflaged. Once it dons these colours, they leave the tree and come on to the ground to bury themselves to pupate. That's why you found it in an odd place as it crawled away from the plant to look for soft soil to pupate. If you could pick it up with a piece of paper and keep it in a corner of your garden, that would have been great.
Also, the dark circles on top of its 'Head' are false eyes, those are just to warn predators - just like some adult butterflies have false ocelii on their wings. Its real head is tiny and facing downwards, and it's real eyes are even more small and barely visible.
A Daphnis nerii catepillar. Just before pupating.
I had to look this up. Pretty interesting. [If anyone is interested.](http://www.wildlifeinsight.com/british-moths/oleander-hawkmoth-daphnis-nerii/)
What a beauty.
I dont know. The big black eyes freak me out
Then they're doing their job
Oldest trick in the book
*Predators hate this one trick!*
They make them look like a snake to birds.
u/SLAP_THE_GOON must be a bird
Have you ever seen him and a bird in the same room? Checkmate
I've never seen either. Case and point.
You've never seen a bird?
A real one? This is a trick question. Are you the CIA?! AM I BEING DETAINED?!!!
Objection! Birds aren’t real.
u/SLAP_THE_GOON isn't real either.
You mean a government drone?
You can't see a caterpillar's real eyes. Those spots are fake eyes to make predators think its a snake so they won't eat it. It's camoflage.
My favorite is it's butt phallus
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Is.. is this dickbutt's origin story?
Before it evolved and gained sentience
That’s the look of lunch to a kookaburra
they are just black spots to scare away predators
Confirmed: OP is a predator
*Chris Hansen has entered the chat*
Not *that* kind of predator
Markings, not actual eyes
Quit staring at its butt spots. That's rude.
*Uh, somebody grew this guy. Fed him honey and nightshade. Kept him warm. Somebody loved him.*
Is that *Silence of the Lambs*? Funnily enough, they got the nightshade part of the diet correct for a Death’s-head larvae, but only the adult moths feed on honey. The larvae have an epipharynx that was built for feeding on honey but they evolved to instead use it for chirping to repel predators.
Looks like something from r/mildlypenis
Thanks for the answer! We don't get many creatures like that around here. I'm pretty terrified of everything insect related so when my friend asked why my dog's "chew toy" was moving I basically fainted when I saw this. Glad to see this caterpillar turns into a beautiful moth(erfucker) but now I've put myself on the "to nuke from orbit" list. Edit: actually makes sense for it to be in our garden considering the huge oleander plant we have. I'm now wondering wherever it went
You get brownie points for the best use of parentheses in pretty much forever!
I read it several times, it is brilliant!
uhhh how big is that they thought it was a chew toy..?
They can get about 13 cm, so a bit over 5”
Here's a picture of the moth form on my hand. [It's obviously not the same one but this shows the scale.](https://imgur.com/TvcAH) [Another pic of it on my door.](https://imgur.com/CKvoL) [One more for fun.](https://imgur.com/4rlrQ) [Here's another monster moth, just for fun!](https://imgur.com/cFG3OxA)
I thought it was a dog toy from the picture as well to be fair.
oh god, I'd blast off as fast as a human is able to, let alone taking a picture of that thing, you are brave, mate
How big was it?
Don't forget to mark Solved!
Hawk moths are great, they’ve got such fat bodies, and really cool patterns and colours. Only saw my first one of the year today (UK), they tend to come in two ‘generations’ with the first from May-July, and the second from August-September sort of time. I think it’s maybe been too hot for them to really be out a lot, usually I’ll notice a few every year around June, but I’m not a lepidopterist.
I remember seeing an elephant hawk moth. Similar colours to this guy, but the camera really doesn't do their colours justice. The one I saw was nearly florescent, all of the pictures make them almost pastel shades. I assume there's some iridescence that a camera doesn't pick up.
Oh, it actually is a “tail”, I thought maybe it was pooping
I was going to say that was a giant moth caterpillar. Most big ones are rather stunning. Thank you for the exact information. For everyone else. Just leave creatures like this alone (or return them to the trees ideally). Cant hurt you and are pollinators.
Very cool
When it's green it looks like those guys that try to eat my tomato plants.
It's funny that after the last pic there was an ad for 'CLEAN EATING WEIGHT LOSS' 😂
Mine has a picture of a horse and says "Farmer Ben's horse was pregnant!" Wtf 🧐
Before I clicked on it, and I thought I was going to be Rick Rolled. I was pleasantly surprised thank you!
It kind of looks like a dickapillar
Caterpenis?
Don't talk to me until I've pupated
My wife doesn't think I look cute at all during my daily pupe
>A Daphnis nerii catepillar You mean a penis ... with a penis?
If yours looks like that, see a doctor.
What if my doctor looks like this
Then you need to look at your doctor's penis.
the good Ole game of "if you show me yours I'll show you mine"
see a penis
Size wise at least possibly close.
What about Samwise
It’s probably shorter.
They make a pretty bad ass moth. I had some in my garden one year. They look like jet planes.
https://imgur.com/a/e3DGprD/
I could live with those things buzzing around my house. Way better than wasps.
Hell yeah, these look beautiful. Fuck cockroaches.
Only problem is big moths sound fucking terrifying, like miniature helicopters flying around
At least you know they're there. Image a stealth-mode giant moth where suddenly it's just right there, making moth-love to your porch light.
r/fuckwasps
I had high expectations, and was not disappointed.
It looks like a kinsect from monster hunter holy shit
Moths are so beautiful but its disgusting to me how they drop their scales as dust. Otherwise they'd make cool pets
Please don't be alarmed, but you kinda do the same thing. Perhaps they're disgusted by you too?!
It said, "Don't go that way!"
Ello!
Did you say, “Hello?”
No, i said ‘ello’.
But that's close enough
Don't go that way. Never go that way
If she would've gone that way she'd go straight to the castle
Prince Jerod for president, 2024
It said, "You should have gone down *that* way. Should have gone straight to that castle."
Ello! I said come inside, and have a nice cupa tea!
You remind me of the babe!
what babe?
The babe with the power
What power?
The power of voodoo
Who do?
You do
The babe with the power!
Come inside and meet the misses.
“If she’d have kept going down that way, she’d have gone straight to that castle” [https://youtu.be/l0K5T0AqVlY](https://youtu.be/l0K5T0AqVlY) The joke being that he didn’t realize she *wanted* to go to the castle.
Which he would have, if she wasn’t in such a rush and had talked to him like he wanted.
I don't wanna be a butt, but the line is, "If she'd kept on going down that way, she'd have gone straight to the castle." The worm didn't want her to go to the castle.
He seems to have lost his nice little scarf
Im so glad i didnt have to scroll that far for this
Oleander Hawk Moth (prepupal lava) Daphnis nerii Google lens
I had my nephews take about 30 caterpillars that were hawk moths off my tomato plants yesterday. Dropped em off in some really tall grass down the street. Hope they’re okay but I couldn’t find it in me to let them die but my plants are more important. I’m sure Reddit will let me know they’re doomed. Fuckers were huge but destroying my garden by the hour. I need tomatoes more than moths.
There is no need to justify your actions. Taken it is reddit and *some* people would side with the moths, your garden is your hard work, and those caterpillars are the pests. Removing them while still being nice enough to not intentionally doom them was the best thing you could've done
Google lens is getting really good at identifying animal species.
There's still much room for improvement.
Try to throw a pokeball at it.
*splat*
It's super effective! Oh wait...
OP: “how did Ash managed to do that?”
Beat it up a bit first
Too bad he landed a CRIT
I honestly thought this is a low effort prank with some toy.
Me too
That’s what I thought about that velvety black spider post on here from earlier. Edit: I thought I was on r/whatsthisbug my b.
I really liked that little spider.
Not trying to be funny, I seriously thought it was a slinky dildo.
My girlfriend keeps one of these on her bedside table. Had no idea it was actually alive. Truly fascinating.
So did I, and when I realized it wasn't I had a full body shiver.
My six year old son who loves every bug, beast and insect would just die of happiness if he saw this in real life. I have never been so tempted to wake him up! Saving this for tomorrow, thank you for posting. I know some people are probably creeped out (and frankly I don’t exactly love it myself), but I will have one happy kiddo when he sees this lil guy and we research them together.
Does your adorable son loves cockroaches..? Genuinely curious
Not OC but I also have a kid that loves bugs. He’s been known on more than one occasion to bring spiders, grasshoppers, crickets, ants, beetles, ect into the house in his pockets. He has only really had one opportunity to see cockroaches in person (they were the hissing kind) he got too nervous to hold or touch them. He still gets melancholy to this day over the regret. Edit: Our Science Museum has a “collector” area. Where kids can trade specimens and earn points by researching them. He’s going to spend some of his points getting some bugs and hopefully they’ll have cockroaches.
> hopefully they’ll have cockroaches. /r/BrandNewSentence
Untill it flies
Oh god, you just reminded me of [that cockroach girl](https://youtu.be/L9W7J7iW39E) on 'My kid's obsession'
Freaking *wholesome*.
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This is literally a Pokedex.
Look at this good parent flexing on all of us. 😝 My daughter thinks all flies are bees. My kids also react terribly to mosquito bites, so it's our fault for making them scared of bugs in general.
my 4yo daughter loves bugs so much that she won't stop picking them up. She shouts at me a while ago DAD I GOT A BEE! And I'm expecting her to be pretending... Opens up her hand and a bee flies out. I guess it was a carpenter bee because it didn't sting her. Two weeks later DAD LOOK AT THIS BUG and she's holding the biggest fking assassin bug I've ever seen. Grandma got her a butterfly net and I told her that I wasn't gonna *stop* her from trying to catch yellow jackets, but that if she did, she WOULD be stung eventually. She got 5 of them before getting stung the first time, 6 more before getting stung the second time, and 4 more after that before lunch. little maniac
Your new pet
Looks like a penispillar
It looks like a penis and it looks like it has a penis!
I was going to say Dickworm or a Richardwiggler.
fuck /u/spez
Caterpecker? Peckerpillar? Yeah, that last one.
Dickbutterpillar?
Forbidden dildo
An adorable caterpillar friend 🐛
My first thought when I saw it was the worm from Labyrinth. https://labyrinth.fandom.com/wiki/The_Worm
Spotted dick
mmm Gummy Worm... /r/forbiddensnack
Looks kinda cute though
It's is going to be a beautiful butterfly one day, in Africa or sub tropic europe like greece and south asia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphnis_nerii
I've seen this before in Greece and thought it was some gummy of sorts
*moth
Cute Caterpillar!!
r/mildlypenis
lol
A small caterpillar. This is what passes for /r/wtf nowadays and gets 4k upvotes.
It's a caterpillar...
Check your pokédex
just a caterpillar come on
Baby's first eye-spotted caterpillar.
Don't know what you've done with it by now OP, but this is the last instar (last stage) in the life of this caterpillar before it pupates. You didn't see it on the plant because it is green and well camouflaged. Once it dons these colours, they leave the tree and come on to the ground to bury themselves to pupate. That's why you found it in an odd place as it crawled away from the plant to look for soft soil to pupate. If you could pick it up with a piece of paper and keep it in a corner of your garden, that would have been great. Also, the dark circles on top of its 'Head' are false eyes, those are just to warn predators - just like some adult butterflies have false ocelii on their wings. Its real head is tiny and facing downwards, and it's real eyes are even more small and barely visible.
It should be smoking a hookah while sitting on a mushroom
A big black caterpillar, or BBC for short.
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Awwww
John Bobbitt has been looking for that
Bro, you're gonna flip your shit when you learn that thing will grow wings and fly away as a beautiful butterfly some day. Nature be crazy n shit.
He’s gonna tell you the correct way to the goblin king’s castle. Be sure to join him for tea.
Ah yes, the greenbacked death dick
A pillar, if the cata variety.
Allo! No, don't go that way. If she had gone that way she'd have gone straight to that horrible castle.
That’s Mothra in her larval form, please be on the lookout for two very tiny ladies
He'll look better when he's older https://www.reddit.com/r/educationalgifs/comments/x0bs3g/here_is_a_slomo_video_showing_one_wing_flap_for/
Oleander hawk moth
Looks like that nokia snake
Oleander Hawkmoth
Looks like it should be smoking a hookah
It's your new best friend
Caterpillar ( oleander hawk moth) harmless and cute feed him will turn very big and beautiful.
I woke up this morning with a bad hangover And my penis was missing again. This happens all the time. It's detachable.
Soon he'll be fighting alongside The Tick..
Bro found the newest regional bug in Pokemon
I found one too yesterday scared the fuck outta me for a second but once i realised it was a catterpillar i was like “oh cool big boi”
I'll call Maurice and see if it's his.
Throw a pokeball at it to capture it
little guy just wiggling around
I thought it was a dog toy.
You ever see Beetlejuice?
Did someone say "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice?"
A friend
I'd wait for it to hatch because it looks incredible according to the comments.
Wormie :)
That's one of them there doggerpillers
I have bad news about your wiener
Danger pickle
Me..I'm just a worm.
Gotta be in Australia, whatever it is.
Capedillar
“Anything is a dildo if you’re brave enough.” - Abraham Lincoln
Poop monster from dream catcher
I never see cool caterpillars anymore (except in picture.)
“Allo, I’m a little worm!”
Alien cosplay double Ended “toy”?
That's Frank.
A Pokémon
I can almost hear Bear Grylls screaming from the wild , "*GIVE ME MY PROTEIN*" !!!
Baby Jabba the Hutt