You've Never Seen A Caterpillar Like This! | The Dodo

[@JKLauderdale]

For those wondering, the plant is the Giant Milkweed(Calotropis Gigantea) and is THE most popular plant for monarch butterflies. They get the nectar from the flowers, eat the leaves and pupate there, it's the best all-in-one option.

[@Summer73343]

Three years ago, I planted a butterfly weed.... or Milkweed. Somehow, without expecting, these seeds grow from tiny flowers into taking over a twenty foot section of my garden. I love it. Along with my 10’ tall Butterfly Bushes…my yard is a haven for these precious wonders of nature.

[@charly3575]

They also develop nicely on crown flower leaves. They eat through the white milk sap leaves in no time. In Hawaii, if you see a crown flower plant, there will always be monarch butterflies fluttering around laying their eggs, caterpillars munching on the leaves and chrysalises hanging on the underside of branches. Always.

[@JKLauderdale]

@@Summer73343 Just an FYI, you can contact the NWF and get your yard certified as a wildlife habitat. We also got certified through our state's "Fish and Wildlife" dept. This MIGHT help protect it if your HOA changes management and starts giving you issues. It's done WONDERS down here and the fact that it continues to piss of the president of the HOA is just an added bonus 😂😂😂

[@LightYagami-xl1wz]

@@Summer73343Please DO NOT plant butterfly bush! They are native to China and Japan and are actually invasive in places outside their native range, displacing native plants. And they are useless as host plants.

[@LightYagami-xl1wz]

You must be mistaking it with common milkweed…Calotropis Gigantea isn’t a monarch host plant.

[@LasVegas68]

During the Pandemic my wife and I raised about 60 monarchs. Never got tired of seeing the process!

[@bettysmith2142]

Oh, how awesome❤😊

[@SupaKlown]

But, but... You've never seen this before! 😅

[@ponyfairyVania]

How do you raise sixty monarchs? Where do you even find eggs?

[@LasVegas68]

@@ponyfairyVania If you have monarchs in your yard go buy Milkweed plants! Believe me you would understand quickly how we raised 60! The female monarchs will lay a lot of eggs on the leaves of the milkweed plants. A lot of eggs!!!

[@ponyfairyVania]

@@LasVegas68 ah, unfortunately I live in a desert so it's not that simple for me ☀️🏜. I don't think monarchs come out here.

[@ymb6987]

Absolutely beautiful and and a reminder to enjoy life in the present❤

[@lindagibney3134]

Butterflies are honestly the most beautiful insect on this entire planet

[@YouTube_still_sucks]

I really like the Orchid Mantises. But it's hard to compete with flutterbyes

[@Goober465]

And caterpillars are so cute!

[@tamrabrower2329]

Agreed

[@latonyanewsome0]

I wouldn't say they are the most beautiful, but they're top.

[@cattailer1077]

Wow! Transforming experience🤭. Thank you for sharing. Just exquisite🐛

[@charlottegrace6656]

I've raised so many monarch butterflies from eggs! I love watching the development! I even have a video of a freshly hatched (from chrysalis) monarch on my shoulder, flying away for the first time. So special.

[@Sheltieshangrila]

The last couple messages at the end got me. 😢♥🥰

[@krenwregget7667]

it blows my mind that something can grow 100x it's size and then turn into something completely different, all on it's own. Incredible.

[@lorianttila9698]

God's miracle

[@krenwregget7667]

@@lorianttila9698 prove it

[@eunaekim9216]

​@@krenwregget7667Who needs proof when we just know? Put that in your pipe and smoke it!

[@bulbasaurbrutal5137]

@@krenwregget7667 The butterfly is the proof :D!

[@darkside6215]

Studies, particularly those involving the tobacco hornworm moth (Manduca sexta), have shown that caterpillars can be trained to associate certain stimuli with mild discomfort. After metamorphosis, the adult moths often still respond to those stimuli in a similar way, indicating that some memories formed during the larval stage persist through the metamorphosis process. If someone was curious xD

[@StarlahMutiny]

I wasnt curious but i am thankful you posted this because it's very very interesting!

[@YouTube_still_sucks]

Neat! Thanks for sharing.

[@TheOCMarc]

The podcast RadioLab did a whole story about this-very interesting.

[@MZ99698]

Super interesting!

[@birdlover7776]

Amazing 😊!

[@Brydav_Massbear]

The transformation of the lepidopteran will never fail to amaze. To think that a noodly speck could become such a majestic flyer.

[@InfernoDelta12]

This just makes me remember getting to have a caterpillar in grade 1 and then releasing it when it became a monarch butterfly. It’s one of my favourite memories ever.

[@JamesSmith-tl5zy]

The monarch butterfly the most majestic of all butterflies 🙏🙏🙏

[@peyotecowboy3199]

We used to catch them and watch them turn into butterflies when I was a kid. We would put milkweed in with them for food.

[@michelemcguire8995]

Well I've yet to see any butterfly come to my milkweed garden, since the pod people invaded my flowerbed ❤and I haven't cut them down yet because the pods await theur arrival ❤,

[@pegasusa1609]

They used to be so abundant when I was a kid. Now, even 20 years ago, when I used to go hiking and searching in the woods, looking at different things, I never saw catapillars like I used to. We had to collect butterflies 🦋 💛 for science, and they were very abundant in the 60s. I can probably bet today you couldn't find all of them.

[@catman2u2]

@@pegasusa1609yeah as s kid in QUEENS (nyc outer borough) every empty lot, full of weeds was abundant with them. Now i live in rural nys. I have milkweed all over but haven’t see a monarch caterpillar in years though i do see an occasional momarch

[@pegasusa1609]

@catman2u2 we grew up in small town USA, in the Midwest. In Illinois of all places, but I traveled, from the time I was 16, and I saw a lot of nature all over the country. You just don't see it like you used to, and I feel sorry for the future children. They'll only get to hear about it in books or see them in glass! It's sad, because I loved my childhood running around getting dirty, without a care in the world except exploring what's out there for me to find!!!! Children will not be able to get to do anything like this 😪 😕, in 30-40 years! If even that!

[@Kenny-yl9pc]

You committed trespassing, kidnapping, aggravated assault and withholding of evidence that's a fricking criminal start for a kid, not bad kid not bad, I am impressed!

[@lauradailey7950]

Magnificent-love the lessons also!! Thank you, Dodo and those who filmed this! 😀🦋💗

[@andrezejobuch4527]

Not just a rather fascinating insight into the remarkable life and transformation of the caterpillar into the butterfly but also at the same time a deep equivalent of what we should all be guided by. Living in the moment. Don't let life pass you by. Thank you for sharing a wonderful video 😊❤😊❤😊

[@littlemisseatscrispsforbre5353]

This is why this channel is the best. The stuff you see and what you learn is really invaluable. Brilliant video and it was fascinating. ❤❤❤❤

[@juanzulu1318]

Indeed one of nature's most fascinating concepts of a creature

[@yangxue1694]

That was so touching. I feel bad that they have such a short time to live on earth, but they have truly changed the world. That’s what they will keep doing.🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@a.j.lilianmenashe5581]

Just woke up. Serendipitously what I needed to see.

[@RockyRajkumar-yg1ee]

This is how nature works..❤ bless ❤❤❤

[@gatorwoman71-the-real-one]

Of all The Dodo videos I've loved over the years, this is the most beautiful and profound. Thank you, Dodo, for bringing such uplifting content to us! ❤

[@debsylvester2012]

I was in the Ozarks visiting a friend and his parents. My friend’s father invited us to walk up a hill and visit some of his friends. We knew he was a supporter of nature so we anxiously followed him. He stood silently in front of a giant bush overlooking a cliff. He extended his arms and the bush began to move. Hundreds of monarch butterflies flew up and landed on him almost completely covering him. It was such a magical experience we were all choked up. It appeared they loved this man because he had created a sanctuary for these beautiful creations. I still think of this magical moment whenever I see a butterfly. Just five years later, my dear friend was stricken with an incurable disease. He tracked me down to tell me goodbye. His last words to me were, never forget the miracle of butterflies. 🦋 Carry this thought with you to comfort you during days when you may doubt life is a miracle. Pass it on.☮️🌹

[@catalinacleoferohm6405]

Butterflies make me smile all the time. They remind me of my mom. I decorated her casket with butterflies (not the real ones though). It was very beautiful.

[@3in2Art]

This is so beautifully done! Thank you! 🐛🦋🙏🏻❤️

[@janetmarshall7171]

This transformation I just AWESOME!! You can't ask for anything better than this!! Going through the stages!! Facinating!!

[@iagnesstoltz2874]

Mother Nature is perfection! ❤

[@jeanf8998]

As a kid it was so much fun hatching monarchs ❤

[@lisanidog8178]

The process of metamorphosis is fascinating.

[@YouTube_still_sucks]

It really is. Thank God us humans don't have to do much except go from the larval stage straight to adulthood.

[@GeordiLaForgery]

The power from being a vegetarian

[@lisanidog8178]

@@GeordiLaForgery seriously doubt it. It just is with certain insects.

[@GeordiLaForgery]

​@@lisanidog8178 Scott Burnhard is a vegan and he's really strong. I eat meat by the way just saying.

[@lisanidog8178]

@@GeordiLaForgery good for him. I’m a meat eater too.

[@lisam9233]

Absolutely beautiful 🤩

[@KimberlyMartin-bg8ji]

Your videos are like a window into your world, love the view!

[@valeriehumbert7369]

For me it's a work of art

[@Alissa-rz6wv]

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[@piarademacher4024]

Definitely one of Mother Nature's master pieces! Butterflies amaze me since I was a little girl and each year in Spring I sit outside and wait for them. They always make me smile. I remember one year I found the wing of a dead butterfly on the ground and burst into tears. 😢 Such a short life, but oh so magical. 🦋

[@NtAPtat]

Just from the thumbnail alone I recognized that as a monarch, my mom has raised over a hundred of them before releasing them once they are ready

[@blessedbeauty2293]

- *Growing these Monarch butterflies is truly amazing!* 🦋 🐛 🫂

[@jakemoeller7850]

Having grown up in southwest Minnesota, the memory of seeing these beautiful caterpillars create the mint-green & gold cocoon was one of the revelations of my young life. That nature would allow me to witness its secrets resonates to this day.

[@thunderatigervideo]

Fun fact: Even though they have gone completely to goo in the chrysalis (neural network included), they retain memory from when they were caterpillars. A group of caterpillars exposed to a smell-based reward continued to respond to that same smell as butterflies while the control group who never had the smell or reward did not. Scientists don’t know how this is possible since the neural network does the goo thing and is completely rearranged. It’s part of a study on what memory is and where it’s stored. Nature is crazy!

[@tothelighthouse9843]

Was it a smell-based reward tho? If it's the experiment I just read about because of another laudatory comment, it wasn't smell-based reward...it was smell-based aversion. They actually used a smell-based stimulus & then delivered an electric shock to the caterpillars, to discover the butterflies later reacted to the smell stimulus with aversion like the caterpillars did. It's crazy to me that people are like "So cool. We tortured caterpillars & discovered they have a memory of the torture as butterflies. So cool!". It's not cool. It's abhorrent.

[@_Y.Not_]

wow, that seems like a whole lotta work for 2-6 weeks of life, you go little butterfly

[@winging2458]

Such a beautiful lesson from NATURE.....live, be present and grateful....🦋🦋🦋🦋💜🙏🏼😇😇

[@Tina-qp7py]

Lovely story. I needed this reminder to stay present and enjoy my surroundings.

[@Zirin-md7pg]

Teaches myself to be grateful for All❤

[@daved7024]

All blessings 🙏 of life are precious 🥰 thank you for sharing this beautiful transformation of the Monarch butterfly 🦋

[@JeanMccreesh]

What a lovely video, and reminder of the cycle of life, and soak in the good things while we can. 🦋🇨🇦

[@KathyBouton]

Very beautiful & very cool ❤❤❤😊😊

[@nicholasselvaggi54]

The best part of my day and feed. Thank you for this. 😊

[@breedube1332]

In. 5th grade we got a bunch of the caterpillars from first hatching from the egg and got to take care of one of each of our own till the full grown butterfly was ready to take it's first flight ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ it was so beautiful seeing 23 butterflies take flight into the sky all at once truely breathtaking!!!

[@mikethetowns]

That was incredibly wholesome

[@beverlyperry663]

I am a true butterlfy lover!!! They are so beautiful and graceful

[@breedube1332]

The monarch butterfly ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@Gysele874]

Reminds me of the Very Hungry Caterpillar Book! Great video! 💚

[@missingmimic]

Yes monarchs! I went to the migration spot in California last year, just beautiful 😍

[@kathleenshabaan3806]

Wonderful and informative video. Thank you. 😮

[@AnnaŁopuszanska-p1m]

Good morrning thank you 😊

[@skittslol1407]

If yall live in a place where monarchs live plant milkweed :) Get visited by pretty butterflies and get a really fun few days when the pods dry and the seed floof is ready.

[@indigowolf556]

We don't have to do anything to nature it's already gone everything it needs. We just have to leave it alone and let nature do its thing.😊❤

[@sunilransubhe]

Beautiful transformation 👌👍

[@haircareking]

That was wonderful ❤

[@lazzyfare4721]

Brilliant video from The Dodo! I learned about this process of life many, many decades ago but have never seen it shown in such vivid color and with such great detail.

[@mspears_bobobuddytheseniorcat]

Well I didn’t expect to cry! I have way more butterflies than normal in my backyard this year. I love them all! 🐛🦋❤️

[@nicoletambasco9210]

We learn about this in elementary school and to me, it’s still one of the most fascinating transformations of wildlife. It’s so beautiful

[@babongababonga9588]

Simply beautiful! And the music too!

[@M.C.P.]

La vita nelle sue tantissime forme... grazie per questo video!

[@wolfman3295]

I have seen some other caterpillar videos before and they are amazing.

[@AndrewDavis-sj6mb]

A distinct and more 🌟 creature than any other

[@johnsmith6217]

The first part of the video with her eating made me have a flashback of that catapillar book that was so popular back in the early 90s.

[@debbralehrman5957]

When I was young we had a field behind us with Milkweed plants. It was great to see the Caterpillars. Later the Monarch Butterflies. 💕

[@suzystone244]

FOOD makes everything awesome. Viola....Butterfly 😂❤

[@dv8ug]

Love it. The video, the music, the wisdom.

[@kp8381]

Nature is wonderful. 🦋💙🦋💙

[@imunique603]

2 to 6 weeks I'm sad and the messages touched my heart.

[@roshnie6670]

Nature is beautiful

[@everlyoshea]

What a fantastic video from photography to editing and music arrangement, well done! I always loved that the chrysalis has a touch of bling! It's mind boggling that a crawling creature turns into a stunningly beautiful flying one.

[@itsblackscarlet]

One of the best life inspiration for us 🐛🦋

[@avacat8852]

Wow, so beautiful!! 🐛🦋

[@kimbratton9620]

It's really quite amazing how they develop!

[@JaniceBilbrey-sm4bi]

I did to. Don't see any anymore. Loved watching them morphing.

[@fefe4266]

This made me cry ❤

[@wildhealth5030]

One Million Thumps Up for this documentation!!!

[@jessicamartinsson2052]

Butterflies are so beautiful ❤❤

[@ruthadams9911]

Nature is so amazing!! 😀

[@antoniusrono]

Amazing transformation ❤❤❤

[@evypeace03]

When you put it that way! 🤧🦋🫶

[@Moulton_Lava]

Is the animal symbolic of metamorphosis

[@peyotecowboy3199]

I don't think it's symbolic when it literally metamorphisized.

[@Moulton_Lava]

@@peyotecowboy3199 well I meant to say associated with

[@peyotecowboy3199]

@@Moulton_Lava Gotcha. Yeah, they do get associated with that theme a lot.

[@livbeau8460]

Beautiful!👍👍👍❤❤❤

[@Iloveallanimals312]

I enjoyed this video so much..beautiful creations..ty

[@lindyc.2552]

I had fun watching some of the swallowtails in my yard change from caterpillars to butterflies. I brought a couple of them inside and fed them until they transformed into a chrysalis, then emerged as butterflies. It was fascinating to watch, up close and personal. 😊

[@petrinabiondo3705]

That so captivating!

[@SanFernandoValleyRose]

Love the Monarch Butterfly and all butterflies too. It's a shame they go through that process and only live so quickly. Life is not fair for these beautiful creatures.🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋🦋❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@dubiousName]

Beautiful mini documentary ❤

[@claudiap.487]

Que bonito! Gracias.

[@22RosesGrow]

Looks like a jalapeno for a bit. Magnificent beauties, these butterflies.

[@yolandacastano4321]

Thank you for the monarch butterfly❤😊😂🎉🥰😇💜💙💚💛🧡

[@tanyatucjer]

Nature is always the best teacher, in all things. If nature doesn't do it neither should you!😢

[@devonvergiels5185]

Absolutely have seen this. I have raised many cats, have done time lapse pics of enclosures. So, yeah this very much out there.

[@Mimi12350]

So beautiful butterfly 🦋 🤍🤍🥹🥹

[@LifesWorldwideAdventures]

Awesome 🦋

[@emmanuelobelogu]

Amazing! Thank you ❤

[@meatpopsicle1567]

Yes, I have seen a caterpillar like that. I have seen tons of them. I grew up watching them go from caterpillar, to chrysalis, to butterfly. Monarch, to be specific. The Great Lakes region is filled with them.

[@GabbyKrueger]

Beautiful butterfly 🦋

[@63rambler66]

The gold band near the top of the chrysalis really looks like gold in person, likely the reason this butterfly is named monarch!

[@name.terrie]

Loved this!

[@pirut1]

Beautiful!

[@회색화합물]

so cute🥰🐛