Curious Caterpillars
Birds & Blooms|June/July 2023
Dig into cool facts about these creeping crawlers
JILL STAAKE
Curious Caterpillars

4,000 Humans have about 600 muscles. Caterpillars have as many as 4,000, with 248 in their heads alone.

1 Hyposmocoma molluscivora, a Hawaiian moth, is the only species whose caterpillars are known to eat snails. They crawl inside the shells and eat the snails alive.

This story is from the June/July 2023 edition of Birds & Blooms.

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