They don’t exactly build the cocoon. Caterpillars periodically shed their outer skin layer, and the “cocoon” is just one of those layers. Turning into soup is also quite inaccurate. This video explains the process pretty well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RaCURU6A2o
I imagine they feel like “man, I really need to turn to goo” in the same way we are like “man, I really gotta take a shit”
I would fucking love to be a pile of goo for a couple of hours. I feel you, little caterpillar.
That’s basically why I was a heroin addict for 15 years. I just wanted to chrysalis-out the world and goo down.
I still want to but I’m clean now :|
I’m glad you’re clean though. Keep it up!
Well done.
TBF if someone tased you every time you set your phone down you’d fucking remember
I only turn into goo after a particularly bad day at work, though.
Or after Shinji has had a particularly bad day at work.
How does goo store memories??
The thing about turning into literal goo is a myth.
I looked it up and apparently it’s half true, they mostly turn into goo but some parts don’t.
i can’t believe they still couldn’t answer the question after three whole paragraphs
There isn’t any way to know. We can test memories they had from one form to the next, but only in one direction. Can’t really ask them or probe their brain to find out what they know.
Has metamorphosis physiology been studied in detail with CT scans, electrodes? It sounds like one of those weird things that could really impact biology if understood in depth for things like regeneration and neuron plasticity…but maybe it’s too far to be useful to humans :/
there is so so much we don’t know / can’t observe / can’t let ourselves realize about nature. animals know and understand far far more than we think – just because they can’t speak doesn’t mean they don’t feel emotions as strongly as us
I learned this on my first acid trip. Nature is more intelligent than your average person believes, and it sucks that we take it for granted. I wish more people would open their third eye and pay attention to their surroundings.
EDIT: To add to the “there is so much we can’t observe” thing, I implore anyone reading this to google the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Our senses, specifically sight and sound, can only pick up a tiny sliver of what’s out there. You don’t even need psychedelic drugs to understand just how little we can observe as human beings if you understand how radio waves work.
How accurate is this description?
Nice video. Yes caterpillars have a proto-wing internally before they pupate. But, as they say in the video, it’s a myth that they turn into goo in the cocoon. They don’t.
They don’t know they’re going to be butterflies. They are driven by instinct to build the cocoon. It is a natural urge, an irresistible drive.
Insects with their tiny brains never really “know” what they’re doing. They just do.
Sounds like the conservatives
Ha, you think they have brains
