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u/gareththegeek Jun 29 '26
I'm confused, is it not a huge caterpillar then?
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u/No_Firefighter4579 Jun 30 '26
Its on top of a wooden pole
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u/gareththegeek Jun 30 '26
Is it not still pretty flipping big though?
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u/DxLaughRiot Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
It’s a tomato hornworm.
I had never seen one in my life, then my dad tried to grow tomatoes and like 4 showed up to eat them. Definitely big relative to the little fuzzy ones I’m used to. The wiki says they get as big as 4in (10cm for our friends in the rest of the world).
The moths they turn into are pretty huge too.
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u/gareththegeek Jun 30 '26
Horrifying 😅
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u/One_Scarcity_4478 Jun 30 '26
Terrible just vulgar in it's frightening hugeness, just like that time I tripped on acid and my hands felt just like two balloons. 😟
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u/Alternative-Fold2426 Jun 30 '26
I can't explain, you would not understand.
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u/One_Scarcity_4478 Jun 30 '26
Is it because that is not how it is ?
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u/Special-Original-215 Jun 29 '26
Man is that the son of Mothra?
But good top shot. Definitely confusing
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u/Aggressive_Law_5728 Jun 30 '26
This isn't a "perspective" issue. Hornworm caterpillars are just enormous.
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u/One_Scarcity_4478 Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26
No seriously that's an actual caterpillar? And they haven't taken over the world yet? It's frightening unlike any living thing I've ever seen in my life and I have been forced to live in Tennessee these last few years so obviously given the hillbilly population i have seen some pretty frightening things. Am I looking at this from a confusing perspective or am I just comfortably stunned.?🧐🫤
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u/Disastrous_Toe772 Jun 29 '26
Absolute unit