Sunday 7 September 2008

Camera critters: caterpillar



Did you know that caterpillars have eyes?
I didn't know that until I saw this one.
It's got eyes, alright.

They are eyes, aren't they?
Well, that's what they looked like to me.

Huge green caterpillar (with eyes) seen climbing up our grapevine, Hania, Crete.

32 comments:

  1. The ayes have it. Gross. Very grape green.

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  2. Wow! That is a pudgy little fellow, isn't it? Love his color.

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  3. Very nice catch you have!~Mine is HERE if you have a time! Thanks! Happy CC!

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  4. That is huge. Never saw one so big!

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  5. That is one BIG caterpillar! Wow! I wonder how big the butterfly will be :)
    Great shot!!

    Mine is here: http://www.kreationsbykerri.blogspot.com/

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  6. Are there many of them in the grapevine ? I remember that when I was a child, I saw all trees in a street in Malang, Java, Indonesia, covered with caterpillars and not so long after this, there were many huge butterflies.

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  7. COOL shot

    Please stop by also at my CC post : in HERE and HERE Thanks

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  8. Maria: What a large caterpillar, I'm sure they all have eyes.

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  9. Hi! That is a very big caterpiller. It looks like eyes to me. I wonder if it will turn into a butterfly.

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  10. Fabulous shot and he is HUGE!! I be he will be a beautiful butterfly.

    Cece

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  11. I had to do a search on your caterpillar to see what he is. He is a Hawk Moth caterpillar. Cool

    Cece

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  12. very cool and creepy all at the same time! Thanks for visiting my site!
    kris

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  13. It probably has eyes and also markings that look like eyes, so the birds think they're being watched and can't sneak up on the caterpillar to eat it.

    That is one big caterpillar!

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  14. He is going to become a very beautiful moth one day!

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  15. That is one humongous caterpillar! Wow!

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  16. Glad you took his picture. He will be something else with wings.

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  17. I wonder what butterfly he'll be. He's so naturally rich in colour and no I confess to not knowing about the eyes. I love blogging, it's so educational.

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  18. great capture of a great caterpillar!

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  19. That's a nice green caterpillar. I believe they have eyes too!

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  20. Funny,looks like eyes. Seems to me a huge caterpillar. In the mean while also enjoyed many of your other pictures. You live in a nice surrounding!
    Dirkjogt, Belgium

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  21. now that is a neat green color and yup that does look like eyes

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  22. What an enormous creepy monster! Amazing!

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  23. yes, they have eyes - about the only thing they have in common with the adult.
    I find them amazing that they pupate and their cells go mushy and they reassemble as butterfly or moth. Another quotidian wonder.

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  24. That looks huge. Great critter

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  25. I think most of the eyes on caterpillars are small. They sometimes have markings that resemble eyes to scare off predators or something? This reminds me of my nasty tomato worms.

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  26. Great photo! Thanks for sharing. Stop by and say hi to my CC'ers! Hope you have a great weekend.

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  27. They have eyes? For some reason caterpillars freak me out. Not as bad as centipedes but definitely up there.

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  28. Definitely a large caterpiller...but will also end up a beautiful lepidoptera someday.

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  29. Rene in Chicago28 March 2009 at 00:32

    No fuzz, so it probably will be a moth when it grows up. The "eyes" are fakes; they serve to deceive and possibly scare potential predators. In North America, the larva of the sphynx moth looks very similar - huge green naked thing, but with a big sharp hornlike thing on the tail end, rather than "eyes", called either a "tomato horn worm" or a "tobacco horn worm", depending on where you find it.

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