Do ALL caterpillars turn into butterflies? Are all butterflies from caterpillars?
No, most caterpillars turn into moths or skippers. In addition to that some of the animals that people call caterpillars are wasp larvae. And just to be appropriately weird some caterpillars don’t turn into anything else.
Yes.
Except the ones that become moths ;). There are some vaguely caterpillar-like critters that aren’t actual caterpillars ( like some wasp larvae ), but otherwise, yes, all Lepidoptera by definition.
Yes.
ETA: Ah, two minutes too late!
Thank you both very much.
You ever notice how stoned people tend to get their brains stuck on something very basic?
My oldest sister got obsessed with bubbles last time.
My middle sister is currently obsessing on butterflies and caterpillars.
I’m, for some odd reason, glad I don’t smoke pot.
Wow, that’s a classic column that I somehow missed, great job there Colibri. I should have expected that somehow somewhere there was a horrible horrible disgusting moth that had perverted sex with a caterpillar.
Thanks. I enjoyed helping Cecil with that one, which actually had been filed in the Mailbag section for “questions too dumb to answer.”
a majority of my posts including this one happen whilst high
Many, many caterpillars are destined to be food for other species. That’s why so many eggs are laid.