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Published: 2009-09-13 01:53:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 962; Favourites: 10; Downloads: 38
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I found this crazy lookin caterpillar on my tree today while I was enjoying the nice weather. The internet has led me to believe that it will turn into a cecropia moth which is more or less just a huge fuzzy red-brown moth. I currently have him in a large jar in hopes that I can help him grow into his adult state of fully-winged bringer of terror.Related content
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I found one of these today. Mine looks like it will change soon. Its really big.
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Gonna keep it? O: I looked up how to keep them when I found that one, but it never came out of its cocoon the next year :c
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wow!!! 
Could you grow it into a moth? Wow such a huge moth °w° I'm so envious XD why do I have to live in such a boring country T^T
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He was a pretty good size O: Big enough that I spotted it on a tree from across the yard. I'd never seen a caterpillar like this before (and haven't seen one since), but apparently they aren't that uncommon around here.
I tried to get it to turn into a moth and it did go into a cocoon, but it never came out ):
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owww how sad T^T if it really was that moth it would have been so beautiful :3
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Has he turned into a moth yet? It's beautiful ^^
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Not yet! Around April, I think
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Oh! Want!
It looks so squishy ^_^
Is it a butterfly/moth yet?
How big is it (and where is it from?)
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The internet tells me that I have to leave it outside in its little jar until early April, then I bring it inside and the warmth will trigger it or something and it'll come out a couple weeks later (:
It was pretty big. I didn't measure it but I would guess it could have probably stretched out to four or five inches long o_O I found it on a silver maple :'D in northwest Indiana.
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That's interesting!
I want one now D:
I would keep a Cicada in a glass lantern thingo, but my mum won't let me :[
Oh. How many cm is 5 inches?
Sorry, we use cm here ^_^;
I should go to America someday.
(I thought you said India for a minute xD)
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Cicadas are scary D:
I think it's in the ballpark of 12cm or so? >.O
India prolly has some crazy bugs xD Too bad traveling is so expensive D:
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Oh that's pretty big :0
Yeah but I like the sounds they make.
The females don't make sounds.
I picked up one making sounds and then it started screaming xD
It was probably like "Ah! Eeek! Don't eat me!"
Yeah India would. They have weird spiders D:
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Every now and again, my area gets plagued with cicadas D: And you can just hear them screaming in the trees all the time and you find their skins stuck to things and it's like where are you hidinnnnngggg DDD:
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They're like that near where I live too.
But I like it.
Just like Crickets!
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I still can't get over this lil guy's crazy suctioncup feet xDD Crazy that that turns into liek a moth @_@!!! He's adorable tho <3
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Wow, he's very colorful! Have fun raising him to become Mothra!
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He's already on his way; started making his cocoon last night and he's already hidden away in it :'DD
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I'm gonna raise a lizard to be Godzilla and then the fun can truly begin >
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That would probably be a pretty awesome photo-op.
...Except your lizard would probably just eat my mini mothra :[
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I shall train him to eat only fruits and veggies. He'll be a vegitarian lizard.
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D'awww, maybe they'll be best buddies and go out to eat a tree together n_n
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down with trees!!!! RAWR lol who needs lumberjacks when you have mini Mothra and lil' Godzilla?
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wooooooow! it looks like that one in alice in wonderland
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Just about! 'cept I didn't find him sitting on a mushroom smoking a hookah xD
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lol, ah well, i prefer him this way
just bout everything in Alice etc freaks me out big time... the caterpillar, the cheshire cat, the queen, tweedledum & tweedledee (them especially!)...
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I could never figure out if tweedledum/dee were human or not in the animated one. They always struck me as more like a weirdly fleshy humpty dumpty D:
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yah
very freakyyyyyyyyyyyyy
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And already on his way to becoming a moth! :'DD
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Great. 
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That is most possibly one of the coolest things I have ever seen.
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Right? I thought it had ladybugs or something coming out of it until I got up close. Thanks fer the fav!
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You're very welcome. It looks unreal.
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