Everything You Didn't Know About Caterpillars 

The real chrysalis was inside us all along

I didn’t just learn something today, my entire understanding of butterflies was table-flipped

Note that there are caterpillars that spin a cocoon first before becoming a chrysalis, most of these become moths instead of butterflies.

When I was little I used to catch caterpillars, mostly those which would later become swallowtails, and put them in a jar with air holes and lots of what I caught them on, usually dill weed, and a twig. Then i would watch them finish their growth and develop their chrysalis. It was always super exciting and beautiful to see them finally hatch out as butterflies, even if they do look like snot rags for the first few minutes hahaha. After I would set them free so they could continue their lifecycle and go lay eggs somewhere. I have many found memories of doing this and I hope to do the same with my kids someday.

"Look up here, towards the front" Apparently I've been looking at its butt the whole time

Not only are your videos always so informative, your editing style is so pleasing and relaxing! ❤

I really appreciate that you don't just Site your references, but you also SIGHT your references for us all to see. Keep up the great work!

As a bipedal ape, I'm definitely pro legs.

So we're not gonna talk about how once the caterpillar becomes the chrysalis all of its insides dissolve into a soup and then congeal into a butterfly?

I love this video and I’m gonna need a part 2 bc i want to know what’s going on inside caterpillars as they grow

I learned more from this video than going to school. I remember back in Elementary in 2004 our teacher said caterpillar form a web around themselves which then filorm a chrysalis

Damn, one minute old? Never been this early for anything haha. I should be leaving for work but I got 5 mins for this lol

4:33 - The single best ad transition I've ever heard. That's EXACTLY what Caterpillars need. 😂

Another point: the caterpillar is not inside de chrysalis, it IS the chrysalis. But if it is a moth, the generally it is INSIDE the cocoon.

Holometabola

i take care of silkworms and silkmoths, its crazy that the silkworm literally sheds its lungs. also you can see its blood pumping through its body lol

What an fascinating, informative, calming, peaceful video. I watched 30 seconds and immediately subscribed. I also LOVE that you confidently and repeatedly say “I was wrong”. Learning you were incorrect about a scientific fact is always an amazing opportunity to NO LONGER be incorrect about said fact. Being wrong isn’t something to be fearful and avoidant of, it’s important to enthusiastically embrace accepting when we are factually incorrect and then adjusting our thinking. It’s the only way to truly learn and grow.

Impressive quality here - the format addressing misconceptions is extremely effective. A science communication force to be reckoned with. When are we going to see the Veritasium collab?

I appreciate this too much. I started laughing in the middle though, because I could only hear the music as if it was the music that is in Curious George… but seriously, I love this! Good stuff.

I love your editing style! Such an unique way of making educational/nature videos! Soooo much better than any national geographics/discovery stuff! Would love to see a netflix documentary from you!!

When caterpillars are in its cocoon it turns to liquid and forms a butter fly for people that ask* How in the world can a caterpillar turn so different when it’s in a cocoon?*

Can someone please clarify, is the chrysalis forming in inside the caterpillar and it sheds again during this stage, or (kind of how it looks in the video) the skin turns inside out into a Chrysalis? Also do the shed skins come out like cicada shells?

Yea, all a caterpillar will ever need is definitely a website😆

I laughed out loud at the “you know what this caterpillar needs?” bit

I am so digging the Mr Rogers voice and music effect. Soooo nostalgic. Not sure if it is on purpose or not but gave me the Neighborhood feels. And I am watching this with my daughter next.

The story of a caterpillars that needs squarespace 10% off

Radiolab has a FASCINATING segment on caterpillars and how we don't really know how a butterfly is formed. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VWHmfKlQ2jw.html

To paraphrase michael from the good place, we humans are idiots with our feeding tubes next to our breathing tube

since ppl are saying they turn in a soup of cells inside the Coccon, I am wondering how much of the damages on a Caterpillar fro before would affect the final form

Love this guys, he always admits that he was wrong 😅then corrects himself with a mind blowing info

*Huh, your Caterpie evolving* **Dun Dun Dun Dun Dun Dun** *Congratulations, Your Caterpie, evolved into Metapod* *Metapod wants to learn HARDEN*

Just a few days ago me and my friends were talking about how transformation inside the cocoon looks, thanks for making this

the crazy thing isnt even in this video, its what happens in the chrysalis...they essentially become a liquid and there are certain cells that will become the body, head, wings etc floating around in that goop. and, even after liquifying its been shown that they can still remember certain locations where they once were caterpillars...

This is fantastic info! I have raised caterpillars for a few years now and didn’t know about those holes they use to breath! 😮

Sorry I’m gonna be that person… BUTTERFLY caterpillars do this. You failed to include the fact that the mass majority of caterpillars do NOT form a chrysalis. Within Lepidoptera only butterflies do. Leaving over 90% of the order, moths, lacking the whole making a chrysalis thing. The caterpillar you show in the vial is a moth caterpillar, probably in the Sphingidae. Moths pupate within a spun cocoon attached to a tree, or buried in the ground or leaf litter, or sometimes with no cocoon, to name just a few ways. I know you can only fit so much in a video and I love love love your content anyway!

I learned more about caterpillars in this 5 minutes than I have in 50ish years. This guy produces very, very good quality informational videos. Once in a while, I even watch the ads in the middle. Not often.

This is very interesting, thanks for make these videos!

Fun fact: when we were born we were inside our mothers wombs and females have wombs called “chrysalis” so it means that humans have chrysalis and organs too and water bones and some important body parts like our brain memory’s and heart

I admire you a lot, this is some National Geographic quality stuff! Greetings from Panama and thanks for your work

Did you know roly polys (pill bugs) weren't insects?

This man is a lot braver than a lot of people! He can admit that he was wrong about something!😂😂

I thought I knew the life cycle of a caterpillar... but I was wrong

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In a lot of ways, I think caterpillars are cooler than butterflies.

But what do they do when there doing chrysalis and the skin is ripping out? Do they put it inside or just make it fall?

I raised some painted ladys and its pretty interesting to watch a catapilla metamorphosis into a butterfly

Sometimes i feel like a caterpillar myself. Maybe i should become a butterfly BY EFFORT.

Ewww, I don't like caterpillars, I'm scared of them!!

I didn’t know a caterpillar needed a website during metamorphosis. The more u know

Me and my class watched this. We were learning about caterpillars!

Great, and also the best example of the scientific process for some reason

Yes, the caterpillar uses silk (I went to school and remembered from school)

Cool! I know the term instar from my tarantula hobby but I didn't know the term applied to Insects too.

Now this explains why caterpillars feet feel so sharp when they're on my hand

love this channel! everything is so interesting!

your videos are entertaining and you encouraged me to collect insects now i have several like African grass blue and blue tiger butterflies

Wait if a caterpillar sheds and becomes bigger, then why did my caterpillar shed and it became smaller?

Remember the caterpillar Three legs or six legs? I can see behind, but I cannot see six leg.

What about moths!! Their little pupas are made of silk arent they?

"Do you know what this caterpillar needs? A website!"

Ahhh hell nah I’m never touching butterflies ever again in my life again

Question why do this transformation if it gets weaker 3:29-3:35

Spiracles are miracles I’m sorry I had to

Uh oh, I smell a proleg \ antileg argument. Who will win? And if you're antileg, what are you for? Antileg is probably pro pseudopod. Yuk yuk yuk.

where do you buy the books you got of the insects

“You know what this caterpillar needs, a website.” Me: WAIT REALLY?

i wanted to skip the ad but you added caterpillars' timelapses on the side... you did me dirty

Have we been lied to this whole time?!

When i ask my lil sis "where do caterpiller breath?" My lil sis said "mouth" 🗿

Was listening to this video as I multitask, and then i heard at 4:32 "You know what this caterpillar needs? A website. Square Space-" I immediately yelled "A WEBSITE???!!" (even tho I know the ad is coming), this is so funny lol

Fun fact or not: Male Monarch Breathe In Thos Dots On Their Hindwings

In about a week's, that caterpillars a butterfly in in the Christmas, so they break up some Pembroke's soul in the Christmas, so it. Before a butterfly, so this Caterpillar is like an insect. But it's not insect, so it's a large one called Mini legs. So there's titches of white cycles from egg larva puba adult There's more to lie to go about because caterpillars are in so Darrell looked like chances Caterpillar. It's Siri's just called so caterpillars that you can cut. Hence light 12345678 in the light. It's some legs and a Caterpillar face a mouth and eye some. This in fact it has like six eyes So they can't She and then they had entana in the back and a in the head , but some monarchs do

If so, caterpillars are so insect, so they can turn butterflies and moss, so, which means are is a mob cap or a turns a Kaku, and in a butterfly Caterpillar turns a crystal a** when each means it looks like high or feet. So, in fact, the feet, it looks like different so the color or green and insur it's aint, but they can put some series of colors and then they can have for predators like which means. Categories have predators, wasp, spiders and lizards and frogs. It looks like a frog grown. It's like a peel that has harmonies to dab. Because by wasps and they can like they can like a call. Of psychiatrist, so maybe I mean it's at the Chrysler. It's acts like they The cat purse are so insured. And then they called like like they do so is a f** when cattles are. So they have 1234 and they have for a life lifecycle. So a lot psycho calls when AA egg hatch and the Winnipeg larva. It's eat when a Lar light is John. Turns a paper when a paper emerged as adult so adult means if you don't like it. It mode in And they had newskin

I raise monarches in the summer so I already know about instars, fake legs, and breathing holes, I also know male monarch butterflies have two dots which attract females! I love letting them fly around and petting them! They are truly beautiful?

Butterfly lifecycel is like an isekai anime - you are dying as a ugly slow worm and reincarnating as flying creature that has nothing in common with previous life. Also you can fly, you are beautiful and everybody loves you in this second life :D

I like potatoes too,but there is something wrong:i found a banana spider, Man!!!!!!!!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤩🤩🤣🤩🤩🤩🤩

caterpillar after seeing the ad: 4:38

What I don’t understand is how does it move right before it becomes a chrysalis?? If the legs are fake and the chrysalis was only a layer under its skin, how did it move and where did the head under the skin go?? 😭

I actually knew most of this! Every summer I check my milkweed for monarch eggs and grow them to adulthood before release. It's so fun :)

OK I know it’s kind of weird but I already know this I was learning about how the giant centipede thing was able to evolve and then it said something about them breathing through their skin

I think i already learned this at school.but i forgot it thanks bro

I am scared of 🐛 caterpillars

WOW what an amazing video I’ve just started to grow some caterpillars and I’ve been videoing the phases thanks so much for this very informative video 💚

They put those buttons in the stupidest of places! My parents have an indoor garden with a tonne of swan plants. And we have to constantly move the muppets who attach themselves to parts of the plant that will fall to the ground before they emerge.

god pls bless my eyes and not make the thumbnail look wrong for me

Godzilla: um mothra is this how you grew? Mothra: yes it is thats how all caterpillars grow. Godzilla: either way you're still a lovely bug to me 😊

What is the name of that orchestral movement you keep playing in your videos?

The fact its called "button" ( 3:14 ) is because it holds on with its last pair of prolegs, who are closely located at the rear end, wich we all can agree its scientifically called a "butt". 😂

Imagine some Alien species studying human, and there’s some kinds of misconception among its population that male human has 3 legs 😂😂😂

I-I have a great fear of caterpillars, they're so meaty and- and squirmy and I don't wanna know whats it like feeling it on ur skin

He: you know what this caterpillar needs ? Me: omg what would that possibly be ?! He: a website Me: 🤡 what ?

Love your vids. Use them to teach my classes!

Of course he is sometimes wrong :/ But i guess we learned something new :]

0:52 that’s an eastern lubber grasshopper not a cricket they can get up to 4 inches long and personally I’ve seen one that was 4.5 inches.

I thought I was already subscribed to this Channel…… but I was wrong I’m fixing that now

The caterpillar that I tried to touch died because it was trying to get to a chicken and I tried to stop it but I couldn't and it died and got eaten by the chicken I wanna make one a pet tho...and I lost the chance

A joke for your entertainment. Two caterpillars are on a plant just eating away and they look up to sky and see a butterfly. One caterpillar says to the other: "You'll never get me up in one of those!"

They are shedding skin like that Pantera song

Butterfree from pokemon The female has black spots but male doesn't

i have parsley outside with swallowtail caterpillars in various forms right now, i've counted 9.