Monkey-slug Caterpillar.
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Man, that is one awesome invertebrate there! Must… investigate… mating… practices.
Kinda looks like an insect chewbacca – lemme know what you find out about its mating practice, Norwood!
I cannot find reproductive practices specific to the “Monkey-slug Caterpillar”. Moths in general are fascinating in how they go about doing the business. For example, males are not necessary to the process.
[...] Neatorama put us onto this. Since seeing it, we’ve been on the usual grail quest to find out about the mating practices of these fantastical creatures. So far, all that we’ve been able to find is that girl Monkey-slug caterpillars do not require boy Monkey-slug caterpillars to make baby Monkey-slug caterpillars. Blah, blah, blah. [...]
