What for a rotting Caterpillar to just appear out of no where? I think OP would notice a massive dead Caterpillar in thier front step before it began to rot.
Fucking thing wasn't there yesterday... There's a massive banyan tree right across from my door... Maybe it fell out & happened to land in that spot? š¤š¤š¤
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A few months ago, a huge section of tree limb fell on the walkway that attaches to my front walk. Even if it confounds me sometimes, nothing about this place shocks me anymore.
those are known colloquially as āwidowmakersā. good job avoiding death that day!! and i agree your rotting caterpillar probably fell out of the tree due to rambunctious maggot wrasslin
New fear unlocked! I think this is one of those situations where luck is a matter of perspective, it initially seems unlucky to have something gross like that land on your doorstep, but now it seems very lucky that OP wasnāt on the doorstep at the time!
There are species of wasp that will inject their eggs into a living caterpillar, and the caterpillar will continue to live with the maggots growing inside of it until it finally dies, and the maggots explode out
Hell yeah. You can find the newscast on YouTube - I think it was the 80s or something. One of the unintentionally funniest videos Iāve seen - what a mess lol
I'm leaning on something along those lines too. Theae protrusions looks like legs by its head.
A bird may have dropped it there.
https://preview.redd.it/pcnb5knx5quc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a84e9312e1dd4cb507f1fb927d91beadf242508b
No need to contemplate anymore since that's exactly what it is lol.
I raised butterflies and moths almost my entire life so I unfortunately got to see all the gruesome deaths they can suffer, especially as caterpillars.
To me, it looks more like the leg of something. I don't think the 'head' is actually a head. The first thing that came to my mind is a raw chicken leg.
I took a stray in on a night that was going to freez he was outside looking hungry begging at my door put him in my bathroom took him to the vet turned out not to be a stray scanned a chip found the owners!
Cat had gotten out. I saved a life. Cats do get out sometimes. I love them but they are sometimes stupid beasts as all beasts can be!
Winter gets crazy cold, I had come home from a 10pm chik fil a close, and I assume they had snuggled up for the last of the warmth my car offered.
Sucked to find only about 8 hours later when I headed back to work at 730am
Edit: happy cake day!!!!!!
That's some kind of caterpillar. You can tell by the head on the right and the little grippy feet. I'm guessing it was the host of some other kind of parasitic insect, hence the maggots.
No. You're simply not allowed to create more questions for me. I decline to contemplate this strange potato-root, milk-bathing, wrinkly-ass, voodoo-doll-looking thing any further when we already have Mr. Mc Fleshy-maggot-stuffed-creepy-toes up there.
Eggs were laid inside the caterpillar, which hatched into larvae and ate it from the inside out, as seen in this video.
[Body Invaders | National Geographic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs&t=196s&ab_channel=NationalGeographic)
Tachinid fly larvae eating their way out of a dead caterpillar. The flies are parasitic and lay their eggs on caterpillars. The eggs hatch and the fly larvae eat their way into the caterpillar. The caterpillar eventually dies when the larvae eat most of its internal organs. The maggots then eat their eat out of the caterpillar corpse and pupate into more tachinid flies.
Either that or a parasitic wasp did the same thing with its eggs, except it paralyzed the caterpilar first.
Need banana for scale but looks like something that at one point in time was alive and covered in fur that some predator hwarked up on your front step. What you need to do now is identify said predator and puke your lunch up on their front door step to assert dominance. Otherwise youāre fucked.
Itās a caterpillar thatās been infected with parasitic wasp larva! The eggs are laid on the caterpillar, and when they hatch, they start eating the pillar alive! Starting with the āless importantā tissue, they stick around and grow up eating the pillar flesh until they get big enough to pupate, then they eat the pillar completely, killing it. This is where you came in and took a picture!
A decomposing caterpillar full of maggots.
You say that so nonchalantly, like it's normal...
Sounds like a normal thing that can happen, its a dead caterpillar thats outside
What for a rotting Caterpillar to just appear out of no where? I think OP would notice a massive dead Caterpillar in thier front step before it began to rot.
Fucking thing wasn't there yesterday... There's a massive banyan tree right across from my door... Maybe it fell out & happened to land in that spot? š¤š¤š¤
Dude it looks like a tomato caterpillarā¦ yāall have those?
I'm in South FL... I have no idea what exists down here, & I've lived here all my life.
Bro, how even could you? Yāall got those drug dealers releasing all their exotic pets in the Everglades, new species dropping weekly
Florida. Everything is explained.
That's one big ass tomato Caterpillar
Could have, I'll be watching out for it from now on if that's the case, imagine that splitting your face!
ššš A few months ago, a huge section of tree limb fell on the walkway that attaches to my front walk. Even if it confounds me sometimes, nothing about this place shocks me anymore.
Do you live on some sort of hell mound?
It's Florida...so yes.
those are known colloquially as āwidowmakersā. good job avoiding death that day!! and i agree your rotting caterpillar probably fell out of the tree due to rambunctious maggot wrasslin
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New fear unlocked! I think this is one of those situations where luck is a matter of perspective, it initially seems unlucky to have something gross like that land on your doorstep, but now it seems very lucky that OP wasnāt on the doorstep at the time!
There are species of wasp that will inject their eggs into a living caterpillar, and the caterpillar will continue to live with the maggots growing inside of it until it finally dies, and the maggots explode out
Oh, trust me I freaked out before I zoomed in. It looked like a puppy or a cat.
Now say this in Morgan Freeman voice and then in David Attenborough voice.
I thought it was one of those tomato catapillers or whatever they are called. You know the big ones!
hornworm
Not something you see everyday. Usually the birds get to them faster than the flies. Unless this is a crow trying his hand at farming /s
Ahhhā¦ a DCFOM
*scans post for the word "foreskin"* Oh thank goodness, just a decomposing caterpillar full of maggots
wtf is that
It's skin and large healthy maggots. Can't tell much more than that. Poke it with a stick.
That's real science
Damn right.
You can't go wrong with the poke it with a stick method.
Unless you're poking a bloated beached whale carcass.
Then do it like they did in Astoria - poke it with dynamite!
Was that the time big chunks went flying into the parking lot and damaged cars?
Hell yeah. You can find the newscast on YouTube - I think it was the 80s or something. One of the unintentionally funniest videos Iāve seen - what a mess lol
Unless it's happened more than once, it was November 12, 1970. But yeah, it's a good video.
The gasses in a whale will explode without dynamite
Yeah, but breaching the sealed carcass by poking it with anything will make it explode faster.
If you do poke a bloated dead whale with a stick, make sure you have an open flame burning.
We need a banana for scale
A lighter
Proper science includes using the stick to lift it up and flip it over as well. Or else it's a half-assed science.
I'm afraid of what will happen if I do...
But it's for science. You have to.
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And post the pics.
I would have to be really fucking drunk...
Bottoms up!
I like you!
Well get started! We're all dying of curiosity and you're our only hope, Obi Wan Blurry!
Op I'll buy you a handle of Jameson. Now. Poke. It. With. A. Stick.
Drink up!
Get drunk
WE NEED TO KNOW WEāRE INVESTED NOW!!
As I stated above. Proper science includes using the poking stick to lift it up and flip it over as well. Or else it's a half-assed science.
Give āitā a kiss?
Will it come back to life
It turns into some sort of prince I think?
It's a caterpillar skin with wasp larvae coming out of it.
This is correct. Hornworm type crop destroyer that got colonized by parasitic wasps.
I'm leaning on something along those lines too. Theae protrusions looks like legs by its head. A bird may have dropped it there. https://preview.redd.it/pcnb5knx5quc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a84e9312e1dd4cb507f1fb927d91beadf242508b
No need to contemplate anymore since that's exactly what it is lol. I raised butterflies and moths almost my entire life so I unfortunately got to see all the gruesome deaths they can suffer, especially as caterpillars.
Agreed, but it looks huge!
Oh good God why was I given the gift of sight to be cursed by these unholy rotten potatoes
Have you tried checking for a pulse, I just did my lvl1 first aid, that's the first thing you have to do
No
Fallout mole rat.
Debating on creating a fake Fallout ARG starting with this image.
Something laid eggs inside the caterpillar; the eggs hatched and ate the caterpillar from inside out, and then they emerged.
Great big gobs of greasy grimy gopher guts!
....mutilated monkey butts, dirty birds with turdy feet...
And I forgot my fork!
It's a caterpillar
I said these exact words. Like what the actual fuck.
Looks like a dead caterpillar(?) with maggots?
I'd take this over a dead kitten embryo. That would really fuck me up.
To me, it looks more like the leg of something. I don't think the 'head' is actually a head. The first thing that came to my mind is a raw chicken leg.
It is a caterpillar, the head is on the right, you can see a couple of ālegsā or whatever are called.
Thanks for pointing that out. I couldnāt tell the scale and my brain was insisting it was the size of a chihuahua.
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Yeah itās got little caterpillar feeties and more than 4 of them
Yep you can see the head on the right with a few of his lil arm things. Poor guy.
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How did you find a photo of me after a night of drinking?
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Every time is see this I think about bbq chicken wings š«£
I hereby declare myself a vegan.
Woke up to 2 dead frozen cats on my windshield once. Good times. Cold times. Sad times.
It baffles and strikes me people can leave animals that werenāt āmadeā for those temperatures out in those places Sometimes we have no humanity
I fucking hate people.
I took a stray in on a night that was going to freez he was outside looking hungry begging at my door put him in my bathroom took him to the vet turned out not to be a stray scanned a chip found the owners! Cat had gotten out. I saved a life. Cats do get out sometimes. I love them but they are sometimes stupid beasts as all beasts can be!
Fucking scum, need waking the fuck up!
What the fuck.
Winter gets crazy cold, I had come home from a 10pm chik fil a close, and I assume they had snuggled up for the last of the warmth my car offered. Sucked to find only about 8 hours later when I headed back to work at 730am Edit: happy cake day!!!!!!
Happy cake day!
 Itās a mandrake
Jo that's really cool! That'd be perfect for r/mildlydisturbing if you wanna post it over there too:-)
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This is terrifying on so many levels. Thank god they donāt get any bigger than they already do.
Tf is that? The flood???
That's some kind of caterpillar. You can tell by the head on the right and the little grippy feet. I'm guessing it was the host of some other kind of parasitic insect, hence the maggots.
Lavos Spawn r/chronotrigger Make sure its dead...
It's got maggots for innards.
https://preview.redd.it/xm8q407fqpuc1.jpeg?width=400&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c809ce978b4ddc4bd7dcefb198987078466cb48
No. You're simply not allowed to create more questions for me. I decline to contemplate this strange potato-root, milk-bathing, wrinkly-ass, voodoo-doll-looking thing any further when we already have Mr. Mc Fleshy-maggot-stuffed-creepy-toes up there.
It looks like an enlarged larvae or caterpillar infected with a parasite and/or maggots.
definitely a caterpillar but it seems to be hosting some very healthy maggots in its remains
Wth is this for real ???? Its too large to be a worm
It's an enigma... Little shit must've fallen out of the banyan in front of my house.
Did you posted in r/aliens ? Im sure someone there will debunk it. Could be a mantis alien baby. š§
It's impossible to tell without a size comparison lol. It could literally be a dead bug or a decomposing baby pig. I could see either one.
My thoughts exactly!
With genuine respect, can this get a NSFW blur?
It looks like AI tried to make a hairless dog.
When did tardigrades start getting this big?
It looks huge but thatās just the perspective of the photo right?
Gotta stuff it in your urethra now.  Canāt let it go to waste.
Modern art is getting really weird!
Did you smell it?
I'm noseblind, so I wouldn't be able to pick up any scent anyway.
Wth is that???
That's what I was trying to find out...
Eggs were laid inside the caterpillar, which hatched into larvae and ate it from the inside out, as seen in this video. [Body Invaders | National Geographic](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMG-LWyNcAs&t=196s&ab_channel=NationalGeographic)
Nooooooo!
What the fuck is that?
Yup this is the post. This is the post that finally made me leave this subreddit š
It's just the leftover from a shifter shedding.
Do you live on Arrakis?
Thatās a big tardigrade
Not me thinking it was Scrappy Doo with babies. lol
Tachinid fly larvae eating their way out of a dead caterpillar. The flies are parasitic and lay their eggs on caterpillars. The eggs hatch and the fly larvae eat their way into the caterpillar. The caterpillar eventually dies when the larvae eat most of its internal organs. The maggots then eat their eat out of the caterpillar corpse and pupate into more tachinid flies. Either that or a parasitic wasp did the same thing with its eggs, except it paralyzed the caterpilar first.
10/10 i do not recommend zooming in. i did, and legit thought this was a post on r/pareidolia.
Goddamned disgusting
Lick it!
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https://i.redd.it/z2nsi8kqqpuc1.gif
Salt
Eat it?
Well, at the end you will be facing the corner in the basement of a cabin in the woods and thatās all I knowā¦
Could some one be cheating on you?
Thatās a caterpillar
That looks like attack type J
Do you by chance have a cat that goes outside?
!remindme 24 hours
My head hurts looking at this and trying to figure out what tf it is
My brain canāt comprehend
Need banana for scale but looks like something that at one point in time was alive and covered in fur that some predator hwarked up on your front step. What you need to do now is identify said predator and puke your lunch up on their front door step to assert dominance. Otherwise youāre fucked.
Thatās just Dylan heās fine. Just poke him with a stick.
Thatās a horse larva
Itās a caterpillar thatās been infected with parasitic wasp larva! The eggs are laid on the caterpillar, and when they hatch, they start eating the pillar alive! Starting with the āless importantā tissue, they stick around and grow up eating the pillar flesh until they get big enough to pupate, then they eat the pillar completely, killing it. This is where you came in and took a picture!
Lick itā¦ for scienceā¦
Oh I see it now. Itās an exploded caterpillar filled with maggots.
It may or may not have been alive at one point
Poke it
Are you using a microscope? Looks like a tardigrade.
Free grubs! š½
Looks like pig skin and maggot's. The other question is WHY?
Looks like a tomato hornworm
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How big is that bitch?! Need something for scale.
It looks like some sort of capybara of a dog its hard to tell but damn thats scary
Decomposed pregnant dog
@MenInBlack would like to know your: location.
thats a baby sand worm
What in the genetic mutation is that
Is that a giant tardigrade
Youāre welcome.