Caterpillar Stickloader

Caterpillar Stickloader

#nature

I have published in #nature very beautiful flowers from the route I take close to home, in the garden or on the way to the market, today I bring you something different, but that still makes me see how perfect nature is.

I also found this man or woman on my way to the market with my daughter, I didn't know what it was, I had never seen it before and that's why I took the pictures. It caught my attention to see a worm inside something that looked like wood and it did not get out of there, on the contrary, when it made noise it hid.

I started to search a while ago in Google, and they call it colloquially caterpillar stickloader or caterpillars of sack, they belong to the family of lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) and there are many species. Possibly this one that I found belongs specifically to this group Hyalarcta huebneri by the type of sack.

I find it extraordinary how its house is built and researching, it turns out that a sack caterpillar starts building its sack as soon as it is born. Each species has its own way of building the sac, and that helps to identify it in many cases. The sacs of the more primitive species are flat. The more specialized species have more variety in shape.

This made me reflect on something, and if we human beings seek to look more like that insignificant caterpillar, at first sight insignificant but admirable, it builds its house early on, it takes great care in placing each stick, there are no mistakes, and as it grows it adds more material, and carries it with it. And I see that many of us, including myself, do not take care of our house, our body, our mind and our soul from an early age, we do it when we are grown up and we do not feel good about ourselves, let's teach our children, let's change that pattern and I think the world will be different.