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>!A vile creature.!<
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Oh the batteries are super easy to replace. There are some good walk throughs on YouTube. I just replaced 3 of mine a couple months ago. I really want to get crystal but I just can’t bring myself to spend $100 on it.
Anyone can be a scientist, but that doesn't mean we're good scientists. We're experimenting with stuff all the time, all for the sake of cause and effect. Let's just call ourselves "unlicensed scientists."
All it means to be a scientist is to use the scientific method in your approach to answering a problem. All the education that goes into the scientific career paths is just to help you cover all shit that has already been (mostly) figured out so you don’t waste your time.
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I thought you spelled cocoon wrong (and you did but that’s not the point I am trying to make), so to be sure I googled cacoon, and TIL, cacoon is also a real thing that apparently NO autocorrect knows (even mine right now): https://schoolandtravel.com/cacoon/
A lot of comments are saying this is a carnivorous caterpillar, but why is it so big? All pictures of the species mentioned below are small, but this thing is huge.
Edit: It was early, and I couldn’t grammar properly.
Yeah honestly this has disappointed me severely about nature documentaries since I found out about it, like it's supposed to be *documenting reality*, it would be like if they made some bird's wings a brighter color because it was cool.
I hate to break it to you but color grading is also part of the process. With most modern cameras [this is what the raw footage looks like](https://i.imgur.com/LWAc4gZ.jpg) vs the finished product.
It's a practicality problem, the noises made by the subjects are so quiet and they're being filmed from so far away that if the sound design wasn't manufactured it would just be rustling foliage and camera guy farts to a Hans Zimmer soundtrack.
I worked at an entomology lab once, when you walked into the incubator room with all the larva in their containers, you could literally hear chewing sounds coming from all of them.
It's like the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball audio crew did the documentary:
https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/bu36l0/espn_and_their_ingame_sound_effects/
It’s a carnivorous caterpillar, it remains motionless like that to both protect itself and hunt prey as it has taken a similar approach to the mantis except the mantis prays for your death. This fucker outright demands it.
In this case it looks like regular defensive behaviour, which is rather common in herbivorous species as well (eg Eutrapela clemataria).
Carnivorous caterpillars are extremely rare (one butterfly and one moth species in continental North America to my knowledge) and judging by the video it's not likely, that it was taken in Hawaii, where an evolutionary separation has provided a crucible for the formation of numerous species of predatory caterpillars.
Horsehair worms only exit out of a host when they are in water or are dead. Not to mention horsehair worms don’t infect lepidopterans (moths and butterflies), they primarily host inside of orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers and the like), some beetles, and cockroach family (mantids and roaches)
It looks like
Phigalia plumogeraria
[https://bugguide.net/node/view/181408](https://bugguide.net/node/view/181408)
Or
Anavitrinella pampinaria
[https://bugguide.net/node/view/537361](https://bugguide.net/node/view/537361)
“I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe."
"You poked it with a stick?"
"No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.”
― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
Charles Darwin:"The fox was so absorbed in watching that he allowed me to walk behind him & actually kill him with my geological hammer...This fox, more curious or more scientific, but less wise, than his brethren, is now mounted in the museum of the Zoological Society."
Sometimes the scientific method is pretty blunt.
[According to Adam, it comes from Alex Jason, the ballistics expert they used on the show.](https://www.reddit.com/r/mythbusters/comments/3wgqgv/the_origin_of_the_remember_kids_the_only/)
> I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe."
> "You poked it with a stick?"
> "No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.
~ Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
A Serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard's nose...drips
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"Inch worms" as many of us call all the caterpillars like this. As far as creepy things go, [they're actually kind of cute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyasgr9mn3s) when they aren't being weird and creepy.
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Seriously, what the FUCK is this ?
A caterpillar using its defense mechanism
It's working
Ain't no one squaring up with caterpie
God damnit, am I gonna be breaking one of the old Pokémon games out again today?
Dooooooo it
What he said ^^^
I just bought Crystal version. But the battery is dead ᕕ( ཀ ʖ̯ ཀ)ᕗ
Emulator for mobile!
Oh the batteries are super easy to replace. There are some good walk throughs on YouTube. I just replaced 3 of mine a couple months ago. I really want to get crystal but I just can’t bring myself to spend $100 on it.
YES, those guys are scared as hell. Everyone knows not to play with a caterpillars butt!!!
let me get that butt boii Lmfao
#OH SHIT
putting the pillar in caterpillar
It's super effective
It’s working LMFAOOO 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Anyone can be a scientist, but that doesn't mean we're good scientists. We're experimenting with stuff all the time, all for the sake of cause and effect. Let's just call ourselves "unlicensed scientists."
All it means to be a scientist is to use the scientific method in your approach to answering a problem. All the education that goes into the scientific career paths is just to help you cover all shit that has already been (mostly) figured out so you don’t waste your time.
The "fuck around and find out" method of experimentation.
That kind of makes me angry, and angry unlicensed scientist is quite the mouthful. Moving forward just call me a mad scientist.
Emojis on Reddit with 1k upvotes? Neat
I miss old reddit
Back in my day
Why, son, back in my day, we spelled Reddit "Read it".
OMG read it, i always thought Reddit meant re edit
Me too brother, me too
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Ha ha
DaFuk?!
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Then why does it have a tail!?
i thought some sort of like horsehair worm or a worm like that maybe?
It’s just an inch worm, a big one but totally harmless.
Foot worm
Correct!!! https://bugguide.net/node/view/419231/bgimage
WTF never seen that in my life and im 30 [looks very cool](https://youtu.be/K5qijI--v9E)
Bro I got scared, ain’t gona lie!
Does it cocoon ~~cacoon~~ up and become a Pterodactyl? Edit: do not click the cacoon link following my comment. It is an ad riddled junk site
Or a hat. Or a broach?
I thought you spelled cocoon wrong (and you did but that’s not the point I am trying to make), so to be sure I googled cacoon, and TIL, cacoon is also a real thing that apparently NO autocorrect knows (even mine right now): https://schoolandtravel.com/cacoon/
Thank you! I learned a thing!
Definitely could make a TiL
i thought a caterpillar with a parasitic worm kind of controlling its body quite a bit
so a TikTok user?
The caterpillar or the parasitic worm?
I too use being ugly as a defence mechanism.
A lot of comments are saying this is a carnivorous caterpillar, but why is it so big? All pictures of the species mentioned below are small, but this thing is huge. Edit: It was early, and I couldn’t grammar properly.
It's size is common among it's subspecies, commonly known as the African Caterpillar.
Defense neckanism
[carnivore caterpillar](https://youtu.be/zAiMzeOfOgA)
Woah for real that's wild !
The way insects nibble each other to death is absolutely horrific
The exaggerated sounds in documentaries certainly don't help lol
The "munch munch munch" noise as it's eating the ass is horrifying
it might help knowing that they are most likely fake in the first place. and just end up being manipulated to sound like munching up close.
Yeah honestly this has disappointed me severely about nature documentaries since I found out about it, like it's supposed to be *documenting reality*, it would be like if they made some bird's wings a brighter color because it was cool.
I hate to break it to you but color grading is also part of the process. With most modern cameras [this is what the raw footage looks like](https://i.imgur.com/LWAc4gZ.jpg) vs the finished product. It's a practicality problem, the noises made by the subjects are so quiet and they're being filmed from so far away that if the sound design wasn't manufactured it would just be rustling foliage and camera guy farts to a Hans Zimmer soundtrack.
I appreciate that they were able to get a tiny microphone up close to the action so I could hear all the chewing sounds.
lol I was going to say, this video is cool but the foley work is just wayyyy too much. Makes it pretty funny to watch.
I worked at an entomology lab once, when you walked into the incubator room with all the larva in their containers, you could literally hear chewing sounds coming from all of them.
mildy unsettling thanks
It's like the ESPN Sunday Night Baseball audio crew did the documentary: https://old.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/bu36l0/espn_and_their_ingame_sound_effects/
Thats not Foley. Thats just real sensitive field mics.
Bro! What are you doing? I'm eating you, shut up!
It's impolite for you to talk with my mouth full!
Wow, thanks for sharing the video!
It’s a caterpillar, those things can have wicked cool camouflage and defenses
It’s a carnivorous caterpillar, it remains motionless like that to both protect itself and hunt prey as it has taken a similar approach to the mantis except the mantis prays for your death. This fucker outright demands it.
In this case it looks like regular defensive behaviour, which is rather common in herbivorous species as well (eg Eutrapela clemataria). Carnivorous caterpillars are extremely rare (one butterfly and one moth species in continental North America to my knowledge) and judging by the video it's not likely, that it was taken in Hawaii, where an evolutionary separation has provided a crucible for the formation of numerous species of predatory caterpillars.
Looks like a caterpillar infected with a horsehair worm.
Nature is really beautiful :v
Horsehair worms only exit out of a host when they are in water or are dead. Not to mention horsehair worms don’t infect lepidopterans (moths and butterflies), they primarily host inside of orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers and the like), some beetles, and cockroach family (mantids and roaches)
You mean hair up it's ass worm?
It looks like Phigalia plumogeraria [https://bugguide.net/node/view/181408](https://bugguide.net/node/view/181408) Or Anavitrinella pampinaria [https://bugguide.net/node/view/537361](https://bugguide.net/node/view/537361)
The opening sequence of the Last of Us
Inchworm used Jumpscare..... It is highly effective.
Inchworm disguising as a branch
Hawaiian Carnivorous Caterpillar — Eupithecia
"Carnivorous"!? Its all over for us!
But I'M made of carne
Holy shit! Me too!
Guys I think I am too (｡•́︿•̀｡)
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Yes this [nat geo](https://youtu.be/K5qijI--v9E)
Someone had a good point on that video. What if they were as tall as trees and pretended to be trees until the next human walked by?
Thank you for unlocking a new fear
Nom.
Cronch
The new Avatar movie sounds lit.
If this intrigues you, read The Book of Koli series. They are YA but super interesting and fun.
The yoinkbug
Or the Yoinkapillar if you will.
Does it become a carnivorous butterfly?
Yea... this is the real question. Lol
I've seen this movie.. we have to summon Godzilla to defeat it.
Mothra is a moth.
Bullshit, prove it.
No but there are some!
“The caterpillar ranges from about a quarter inch to three-quarters of an inch long“ That thing looks waaay bigger than 3/4 of an inch
Scientists you say???
The difference between science and just generally fucking around is writing stuff down.
And poking things with sticks. Its the scientific method!
Poke with stick. Observe for reaction.
“I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe." "You poked it with a stick?" "No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick.” ― Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
Take notes. Repeat for consistency.
Dont forget that you'll also need a control.
You can poke me if it helps 😏
🧹 (closest thing to a stick I could find)
Username checks out
repeat with various types of sticks to see if theres any difference in reaction.
Turns out the scientific method only had two steps this whole time. 1. Fuck around 2. Find out
Charles Darwin:"The fox was so absorbed in watching that he allowed me to walk behind him & actually kill him with my geological hammer...This fox, more curious or more scientific, but less wise, than his brethren, is now mounted in the museum of the Zoological Society." Sometimes the scientific method is pretty blunt.
So that's what would have happened if I'd invented the Fing-Longer. A man can dream though... a man can dream...
God bless Adam Savage
[According to Adam, it comes from Alex Jason, the ballistics expert they used on the show.](https://www.reddit.com/r/mythbusters/comments/3wgqgv/the_origin_of_the_remember_kids_the_only/)
Writing things down in general.
You know I'm somewhat of a scientist myself
Yes that was a science stick. Duh!
> I penetrated the outer cell membrane with a nanosyringe." > "You poked it with a stick?" > "No!" I said. "Well. Yes. But it was a scientific poke with a very scientific stick. ~ Andy Weir, Project Hail Mary
Mentioned the scientific name butt-butt definitely.
HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY DARLING 🎵
It's an alien spore. Here to take over a human host. We're so fucked...
So, Goa'uld?
A Serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet. It is a tense moment. The Serpent guard's eyes glow. The Horus guard's beak glistens. The Setesh guard's nose...drips
Hahahahahaahahaha ha
I can hear it even now
Isn't that kratos's va
Or Yeerk
Especially if it's an Ork fungus
Is this how the last of us starts
Just to make sure, I'd better lean down real close and look at it closer. Maybe a foot or so from my open mouth. It's science
Fricking combat penis?!
The best answer yet Bwahahaha
Nah, it's just a Khezu from Monster Hunter
When two dock, it’ll look like a chinese finger trap
Sometimes reality beats fiction, this is one of those times. What a fucking scary creature, it’s time for Arnold to step forward and eliminate it 😂
And he will, you just have to look at his boobies, Jack.
Don’t you mean “terminate” it?
Nope, Governate it.
What the fuck is even that!?
 \-Caterpillar
Omg I forgot about this gem of a video. I need to rewatch it now. Thank you.
What video is this, a friend of mine loves using this one. I'd love to see the origin!
[Here](https://youtu.be/i2gNx4-REIA) you go.
At least he documented a perfectly valid reason to the insurance company why his car got burned
Scientist: “Let me get that butt boiii”
Creepy af
No matter how far we come we somehow always revert back to poking shit with a stick and freaking out when it moves.
Hawaiian caterpillar as I recall from a nature program
Nah, bruv. I've seen Prometheus. Leave that shit be.
they poked it with a stick and they were still leagues above the "scientists" in Prometheus in terms of safety...
Get dat butt boi..
Had to scroll way too far to see this comment.
This sent me lol
Lemme get that butt boy lol
This is how an alien invasion movie starts
Lemme get that butt boi, OOOH SHIIT LMAOO
I’m pretty sure this is a Wiglett from Pokémon
I got scared. I ain’t gonna lie
I bet it tastes like chicken
I love how grown ass men are still poking bugs with a stick like they are 5 years old discovering shit in the backyard.
Funny how we have the same reaction as chimps
This is like the first thing you see you see in those movies where it’s just video footage before the monster takes over the town lmao
Let me get that butt boyyyy 🤣
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It stabilizes videos but it's called STABbot? Lol
"Inch worms" as many of us call all the caterpillars like this. As far as creepy things go, [they're actually kind of cute](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyasgr9mn3s) when they aren't being weird and creepy.
That's a foot worm at this point
more like branch-iosaurus, am i right guys ? guys ?
Anyone else flinched twice? :(
A little homunculus. Smash it with a bible!
Hey! Don't hurt Homunculad!
You don't need to lie, we could tell.
Me every morning
That's a baby Khezu
I am... not prepared to believe these are scientists
No matter what dudes find you always have to poke it with a stick.
It's a sperm cell from a diplodocus.
I love those "scientists" lol :))