#proleg

[caterpillars-rock]

I’m sorry it’s been like, a year or two but I must deliver worm content again.

have this cutworm of sorts that my brother dropped on my phone gently without saying a word and left (photo on a paper tower)

[whatthefauna]

Caterpillars have "prolegs" along their abdomen that facilitate their slinky mode of transportation. Not considered to be true legs, prolegs are only present in the larval stage of lepidopterans (butterflies and moths).

Image credit: Justino Diez