Hi! Regarding your last post about the laurel sphinx caterpillar, I'm just curious - would the technical term for that lil blue defense be "horn"? I just don't want to sound like an idiot when I'm tryna get my friends to take the caterpill and see the buggy truth.
(p.s. YOUR BLOG IS AMAZING and by default YOU ARE AMAZING!!!!)
(p.p.s. that took forever to do on mobile but u deserve rainbow love damnit)
First of all, no, *YOU* are amazing. Thank you for the kind words.
Yes, that little blue defense is indeed called a horn, technical term is "butt projection" ;-)
Seriously though, the common name for Sphingid caterpillars is "hornworms" for this very reason. For more about this check out this page on @eumorpha-dream 's amazing website, Sphingidae.us: https://www.sphingidae.us/general-information.html
