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A caterpillar of the common mime (Papilio clytia) on the side of a leaf in a garden in the Makola suburbs of Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Photograph: M.A.PUSHPA KUMARA/EPA
(Source: Guardian)
A snail and a caterpillar come to face to face in Batam, Indonesia
Picture: Shikhei Goh / Barcroft Medi
A very hungry caterpillar munches its way through an autumn leaf
Picture: ARIEF PERDANA / CATERS NEWS
If prizes for Halloween costumes were handed out in the world of nature, this scary skull-faced creepy-crawly would surely win. The extraordinary specimen is the larvae of the pink underwing moth, an endangered species only found in the Australian rainforest.
Picture: Lui Weber/Rex Features
There are thousands of species of butterflies and moths in Yasuni so there is an equivalent number of caterpillars with endless odd and impressive looksPhotograph: Kelly Swing/Estacion Tiputini Colegio de Ciencias Biológicas y Ambientales/Universidad San Francisco de Quito
Yasuni’s most unusual species - in pictures
A caterpillar lies on a wild flower at a farm at wadi Al-Sheta, west of Amman, Jordan
Photograph: Jamal Nasrallah/EPA
(Source: Guardian)
One of the winning entries from the RSPCA Young Photographer Awards – a synchronised caterpillar eating team taken by Georgia Hardy, 12, which won the 12 to 15-year-old group
Frozen Planet in Numbers - BBC Wildlife Magazine, Nov ‘11
Mi preciosa Hyles by ROQUE141 on Flickr.
Chrysodeixis chalcites by ROQUE141 on Flickr.
‘What Do You Mean, Summers Not Over Yet ?’ by aerial2 on Flickr.
Cinnabar Moth Caterpillar by Peter J Berry on Flickr.
