Amazing caterpillar!

[amaraal]

Euthrix_potatoria or 'drinker' in English, 'Grasglucke' in German. 'Glucke' means 'mother hen'... btw.
It was crossing the street when I saw it. The adult looks like a brown leaf.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthrix_potatoria

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You can hear the birds in the background :)

Comments

[anteros_lmc]

It's good to find pleasure in the small things in this world :)

[amaraal]

Thanks! I've never seen one before. That's why I was so fascinated. Did you show the x-mas elf?

[mylodon]

Aw. What a cutie.

[amaraal]

I think it has a moustache! :)

[nodbear]

Amazingly good mover - and such a lovely sight to stop and consider something so small - great :)

[amaraal]

Thanks. It's the little things you know? Nothing is trivial!

[eglantine_br]

That is a handsome caterpillar. Tiny things like that have there own little irreplaceable lives. And it is a good thing to think about that, I think.

[amaraal]

If you consider that they are much, much longer on this world than we are or will ever be... Maybe we will see it again - as a moth :)