Papilio Caterpillar

Papilio Caterpillar*

Living with Nature Center

San Vicente, Ilocos Sur

Photos by Dr Abe V Rotor

"How does one become a butterfly? You have to want to learn to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." — Trina Paulus, Hope for the Flowers

"There's nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." — R. Buckminster Fuller

*A Papilio caterpillar is the immature, larval stage of a swallowtail butterfly, famous for disguising itself as bird droppings when young and using a foul-smelling defense horn when threatened. The Papilio genus includes more than 500 species of butterflies. Their caterpillars go through distinct changes as they grow and mature. Wikipidia/Britannica