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Latin America

Judi Lynn

(160,516 posts) Wed Jul 3, 2019, 02:59 AM Jul 2019

Mesmerizing Footage of Spiny Slug Moth Caterpillars Calmly ‘Breathing’ Upon a Leaf in Amazonian Ecuador
by Lori Dorn at 5:32 PM on June 26, 2019

This was filmed in Yasuni, Ecuador. A Caterpillar doesn’t actually breath, the compression and extension of each segment causes the air/oxygen to go in and the carbon dioxide to go out of the caterpillar’s spiracles.

https://laughingsquid.com/slug-moth-caterpillars-breathing/

Science:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/122864874

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