Wizard of Id by Parker and Hart for April 14, 2021

Me too.

Flies, moths, mealworms etc all do it!

It’s in their nature!

The miracles of nature never cease to amaze…

Cool!

Moth caterpillars spin cocoons, but not butterflies. A butterfly caterpillar forms a chrysalis.

If true, it explains a lot I didn’t understand. Hence it’s beautiful…

People don’t wants the truth. They always want the convenient lie.

Yummy!

What he says is true…https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/caterpillar-butterfly-metamorphosis-explainer/

Oh good god! Think about it, is this what happens to us in the coffin and we can’t get out cuz we’re 6 feet under?

First time I was ever glad not to be a caterpillar.

Ew

Nature is naturally dirty but worth it. Just don’t think to much about it.

Shut your moth right now!

Yes Butterflies are disgusting.

so when in cartoons like Calvin & Hobbes, when the food forms a sentient goo that jumps like an alien face-huger, or if the rotten food in Garfield jumps from the fridge, it turns it is possible. The things you learn in cartoons…

Waste not, want not.

I find watching their transformation as awesome as watching a baby coming together in the womb. just AWESOME. and those cocoons wiggle just like a baby in the womb

It really is a miracle…..

Pardon my pedantry, but butterflies emerge from a CHRYSALIS, moths emerge from a cocoon. Difference being, the skin of the butterfly caterpillar becomes the shell of the chrysalis inside which it undergoes metamorphosis. Moths create their shell either by spinning a cocoon from their caterpillars or using twigs and leaves to cover themselves.

Thus endeth the lesson.

Fascinating!

I remember being five or six years old and being absolutely convinced that my mother was crazy when she told me a four-inch long, bright green caterpillar was an insect.

Me TOO

Wonder how wiz would explain where babies come from…

I still love them.

I’ve heard that butterflies remember their lives as caterpillars, but I don’t know how the scientists know that.