#dragon headed caterpillar

[onenicebugperday]

Two-tailed pasha, Charaxes jasius, Nymphalidae

Photo 1 by johnnyrandom, 2 by ronald63, and 3-7 by mazzeip

#animals #curators on tumblr #insects #bugs #butterfly #two tailed pasha #Charaxes #dragon headed caterpillar #pupa #chrysalis #caterpillar #larva #egg #one nice bug

[snowberai]

Not exacrly underrated but heres bunch

These are really interesting lil bugs!! aww i love them sm!! Decided to do multiple different drawing styles for each one! Had a lot of fun practicing them!

#CW bugs #TW spider #my art #ask and you shall receive #tw: bugs #fungi-out #bugs #insects #moth #scorpion fly #pellucid hawk moth #dragon headed caterpillar #a tad late #pyrops heringi #spider

[salsayz]

the bug life

#artists on tumblr #my art #ocs #yogurt #beetles #dragon headed caterpillar #digital art #illustration

[fanartalchemist]

I was looking at pintrest when I saw cool stuff that i wanted to create myself. inspired by a rainbow dragon design, dragon geaded catipillar, and my favorite non-binary character in bugsnax (floofty).

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now this is my magnum opus of floofty as a mythical beast.

#floofty fizzlebean #nonbinary #dragon #alien #dragon headed caterpillar #bugsnax

[romeowho]

My new D20 headcanon is that the group of students Goldenhoard is talking to on the first day when Fabian and Fig grab him to bring him to the cafeteria are the Rat Grinders, and their grudge came out of the Bad Kids stealing his attention from them

#dimension 20 #fantasy high #headcanon #sara talks dimension 20 #caterpillar kettlebell is definitely like i could have killed goldenhoard if only they hadn't pulled him away #i could've killed the dragon before prom #edited to fix fizz #i really combined em and murph in my head

[dinoserious]

day 14 dragon head caterpillar

#invertober #insect #bug #caterpillar #dragon head caterpillar

[meltknuckles]

a dragon head caterpillar inspecting their treasure hoard for @fossilforager’s invertober challenge 💎✨

#blender3d #blender #b3d #3d #lowpoly #low poly #gif #3d model #creature #eyestrain #caterpillar #dragon head caterpillar #bug #insect #invertober #invertober2022

[idle-sun]

I made another Dragon!

But this time, its inspired by the Dragon head caterpillar~

#in space is my place #my art #caterpillar #dragons #dragon art #dragon head #digital art #rawr

[topios]

A dragon head caterpillar with mycena lux-coeli, one of the glow in the dark mushrooms!

#invertober2022 #dragon head caterpillar #caterpillar #mushroom art #mycena lux-coeli #art by me

[thetragicallynerdy]

What's your opinion on the Dragon-Headed Caterpillar? I think they look super cool! They're rad as hell in my opinion, but id love to hear your opinion.

Hello hello! Okay honestly i had never heard of them before, but I did a google and they're cool as hell oh my god?? I love them, they look so cool, I'm especially obsessed with 1) how tiny they are (this website says they grow up to about 30mm, which is so small) (they remind me of inchworms, which are my favourite bug ever forever) and 2) how some species have colouring/stripes on their heads that remind me of watermelons and 3) that some are venomous, we love a poisoning bb. Also the butterflies they turn into are gorgeous!!

Anyway I am a little obsessed, here, I drew one as a fire-breathing dragon obliterating an especially tiny knight

[ID copied from alt text: A pencil sketch of a dragon-headed caterpillar, which is a type of caterpillar with four long spikes growing from the back and side of its head. It is rearing up and breathing fire, and a tiny stick figure holding a sword is in the fire, being roasted to a crisp. End ID.]

#bug #caterpillar #dragon #dragon-headed caterpillar #asks

[onenicebugperday]

I've recently discovered the delightful news that there are several different species of dragon head caterpillars (such as Polyura athamas aka common nawab, and Charaxes wakefieldi aka the Forest queen) as well as there being multiple emperor caterpillars (such as Sasakia charonda aka the Japanese emperor, and Asterocampa clyton aka the tawny emperor).

How many dragon head caterpillars and emperor caterpillars are you aware of? And could you talk about the purpose of their "horns"?

I think there are a couple hundred species of each. For dragon-headed caterpillars (Charaxini), I read some time ago that they have venomous spines on their horns that can cause irritation if you touch them, so the horns would be defensive. Plus having big horns on your head makes you look bigger, more formidable, and harder to swallow. And I don't think it hurts when it comes to blending in with plants, either.

I can't say for sure with emperors (Apaturinae), but I imagine the horns are defensive and camouflage as well. As far as I know their horns are not venomous, but anyone feel free to correct me if you've read otherwise.

#wolf-pearl #the more you know #dragon headed caterpillar #emperor butterfly #butterfly #caterpillar

[kaberett]

Two short videos of dragon-headed caterpillars.

#dragon-headed caterpillar #entomology #Youtube

[mallardbee]

Invertober Days 14, 15, 16, and 17! Fell behind a little bit, catching back up!

#dragon head caterpillar #malaysian leaf insect #fuzzy golden nautilus #japanese oak silk moth #invertober

[fanartalchemist]

drawing teaser for a new fan bugsnax I'm making (I dont know if this has been done yet):

dragon fruit + dragon headed caterpillar. what name would you give it?

#fan bugsnax #dragon fruit #dragon headed caterpillar #bugsnax

[crimsonmoonscrypt]

I really need to post here more NGL >_< here's a dump of a bunch of drawings <3 furst 4 is my DND character, kindof just warm up drawings so I can add clothes to it and stuff :33

Rest of it is my puppet universe w Matthew (puppet human) and Toulouse (puppet bird) though the red bird isn't mine she belongs to @/carehound / crazy puppet on twt and here

#kyrukatart #d&d #puppet #destination love #i really need to change that name #DLMatthew #DLToulouss #dragon-headed caterpillar #ocs! #original character #white board fox

[newnevermind-sanity]

WIP

#sanity shut up #sanity does stuff #the butterfly witches #it's vera! #they're based off of dragon head caterpillars and the butterflies they turn into!