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Mad Hatterpillar

Started By TheMicroPlanet , May 23 2020 7:56 AM

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#1 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted May 23 2020 - 7:56 AM

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This caterpillar wears its molted heads on its head. It's literally a hat made of skulls...

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#2 Offline TheMicroPlanet - Posted May 23 2020 - 7:58 AM

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I won't spoil the article, but apparently this tower of heads is used for defence, kind of like a horn or a sword or something.


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#3 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted May 24 2020 - 8:25 AM

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That's pretty bizarre and cool.

I just wish they had a video of HOW they put their own skulls on their heads so neatly.


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Formiculture Journals::

Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus (inactive), vicinus, laevigatus/quercicola

Liometopum occidentale;  Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus (inactive)

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and californicus (inactive)

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

 

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