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Anonymous
Crazy Catepillar I photographed. I love the fake eyes on the body.
>> Anonymous
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>> SaVvy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiracle
>> Anonymous
it looks tasty. I wanna eat it.
>> SaVvy
>>150321

The caterpillar is a Manduca sexta, around the fifth instar of development, fyi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manduca_sexta
>> Anonymous
>I love the fake eyes on the body.

Fucking evolution, how the fucking fuck?

There's no way things like caterpillars and butterflies and moths have good enough eyesight to see animals' eyes in so much detail. They don't will those fake eyes to be there or anything. Those things just happen to look exactly like eyes, and all the other bugs with random blobs that don't resemble eyes don't evolve as successfully because they get eaten more.

Fuck me. Evolution. How the fucking fuck.
>> Anonymous
>>150615
I love how the highest/best "Conservation status" on the WP article is "LEAST CONCERNED"
>> Anonymous
>>150623

They don't see eyes and think 'hey they look like eyes, betteer try to be more like them!'
It's natural selection. The caterpillars with the most eye-like spots are more likely to put off attackers and survive to breed. Continue for many generations and you get caterpillars with very eye-like spots.
>> SaVvy
>>150623

Read the wiki article in No.150445. Also, stay in school and make sure to pay more attention in your English classes.
>> Anonymous
>>150636
You just pretty much reworded that post.
>> Anonymous
>>150636
Well, the main point of his "fucking" post was that organisms that feeds on such small animals should not have that good eyesight.

Awesome pictures btw
>> SaVvy
>>150645

I don't understand if you are trying to decipher what he said or if you are trying to support what he said. I read "it doesn't make any sense that caterpillars evolved eye spots so they don't get eaten because they can't see small things anyway."
>> Anus McGillicutty
Hah hah hah,

It's cute that you fatherfuckers think you know what you're talking about.
>> Anonymous
i just found one of these same caterpillars in my house, cats must have brought him in. im gonna try and raise it.
>> Anonymous
You should feed it lots of LSD.
>> Anonymous
it acts like its dieing, it has a few puncture wounds from the cat.