Comments on: Caterpillar http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/ A daily photographic look at the world of insects, spiders, creepies, crawlies and critters. Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:25:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: David Brady http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-531 David Brady Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:51:32 +0000 http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-531 vickmuffin: Thanks! I'm glad you like it. Unfortunately, the image on the site is already at the highest resolution I had available. You can get it by clicking on the "larger version" link in the post; it is 1280x960. Enjoy! vickmuffin: Thanks! I’m glad you like it.

Unfortunately, the image on the site is already at the highest resolution I had available. You can get it by clicking on the “larger version” link in the post; it is 1280×960.

Enjoy!

]]> By: vickmuffin http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-525 vickmuffin Wed, 30 Jan 2008 00:49:11 +0000 http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-525 u should set this one up to b a background its awesome adn my favorite thus far u should set this one up to b a background its awesome adn my favorite thus far

]]> By: djfoobarmatt http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-499 djfoobarmatt Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:30:08 +0000 http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-499 sorry - i was replying to Wayne not Don. sorry - i was replying to Wayne not Don.

]]> By: djfoobarmatt http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-498 djfoobarmatt Tue, 22 Jan 2008 05:29:06 +0000 http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-498 Don, Yep I'd say that's the same animal as it was seen in Coolangatta (near Brisbane as mentioned in the post) and on a similar looking vine. Don, Yep I’d say that’s the same animal as it was seen in Coolangatta (near Brisbane as mentioned in the post) and on a similar looking vine.

]]> By: » Insect Picture of the Day http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-497 » Insect Picture of the Day Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:23:23 +0000 http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-497 [...] cool! I got a photo put on Insect Picture of the Day. Check it out. Well OF COURSE it’s from Australia. What IS IT about freaky animals and Australia? I mean, [...] [...] cool! I got a photo put on Insect Picture of the Day. Check it out. Well OF COURSE it’s from Australia. What IS IT about freaky animals and Australia? I mean, [...]

]]> By: Don http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-495 Don Tue, 22 Jan 2008 03:28:25 +0000 http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-495 Hrm. Wonder what a carrion crawler will look like in 4th edition? Yet another one to suck money from me ... And I'll buy it too. *sigh* Very nice pic though. Vibrant colors, wavy tentacles ... pretty cool. Hrm. Wonder what a carrion crawler will look like in 4th edition? Yet another one to suck money from me …

And I’ll buy it too. *sigh*

Very nice pic though. Vibrant colors, wavy tentacles … pretty cool.

]]> By: Wayne http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-494 Wayne Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:46:12 +0000 http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-494 A Google search for "caterpillar tentacle australia" indicates that this might be /Euploea core/. The photos of /E. core/ at http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_nymphs/Crow.htm look pretty similar. A Google search for “caterpillar tentacle australia” indicates that this might be /Euploea core/. The photos of /E. core/ at http://www.geocities.com/brisbane_nymphs/Crow.htm look pretty similar.

]]> By: tceisele http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-492 tceisele Mon, 21 Jan 2008 14:36:08 +0000 http://www.insectpod.com/2008/01/21/caterpillar/#comment-492 It looks like some cross between a Monarch Butterfly caterpillar and, oh, I don't know, maybe Cthulhu? Is that milkweed that it's hanging out on? I've got a theory about why Australian animals are so much weirder/more venomous than the ones up here in the temperate zone of North America: Australian animals are mainly competing with each other for limited resources, and we are looking at the end results of a lot of interspecies "arms races" ("So, you think you can become immune to my poison? Well, try *this* one! And for good measure, I'll put it in a tentacle that I can swat you with from a distance! Mwahahahaha!"). Here in NA on the other hand, particularly in the north, they are mainly just trying to survive the winter, and pressure from the other survivors of winter is almost an incidental issue. Besides, up until about 10,000 years ago, Michigan at least was under about a mile of ice, and all our organisms migrated up from further south during almost historic times. So, our fauna is a small subset of the most common southern organisms, and there really hasn't been time to develop much that is interestingly weird and different. It looks like some cross between a Monarch Butterfly caterpillar and, oh, I don’t know, maybe Cthulhu? Is that milkweed that it’s hanging out on?

I’ve got a theory about why Australian animals are so much weirder/more venomous than the ones up here in the temperate zone of North America: Australian animals are mainly competing with each other for limited resources, and we are looking at the end results of a lot of interspecies “arms races” (”So, you think you can become immune to my poison? Well, try *this* one! And for good measure, I’ll put it in a tentacle that I can swat you with from a distance! Mwahahahaha!”). Here in NA on the other hand, particularly in the north, they are mainly just trying to survive the winter, and pressure from the other survivors of winter is almost an incidental issue.

Besides, up until about 10,000 years ago, Michigan at least was under about a mile of ice, and all our organisms migrated up from further south during almost historic times. So, our fauna is a small subset of the most common southern organisms, and there really hasn’t been time to develop much that is interestingly weird and different.

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