#catterpillars

Sometimes caterpillars use webs just like spiders.

Hyposmocoma Molluscivora is a carnivorous caterpillar that eats snails and uses silk to catch them like spiders do. Another species in the same genus also uses a web, but doesn't bother to build it's own. It just lives alongside the spider and steals it's prey. This caterpillar is mostly known as a "bone collector caterpillar" because it uses remnants of other insects for camouflage

OH SICK ME TOO! I have thalassophobia bc my DAD jokingly pushed me to a 5 meters deep pool when i was 10 (i can swim, but when i cant see the bottom of the pool, just darkness, oh i lost my shit right away)

MAD HATTERPILLAR (Uraba lugens)

Nuytsia@Tas, 2009. “Totempole head - Uraba lugens” South Arm, Tasmania

If you’re even slightly familiar with Lewis Carroll’s novels, the mad hatterpillar (or gum leaf skeletoniser) won’t need much of an explanation. Adult skeletonisers are quite unassuming looking moths, but the larvae owe their nickname to the tower of head capsules retained from each instar following ecdysis. The role these hats of heads play isn’t clear, though a study by behavioural ecologist Petah Low et al. suggests a defensive function. They’re wrong.