LARVAE

[Zradha Pahlavan]

That's right! Now that we've had duckies and kitties and puppies in threads, it's time to unleash the cute babies of the insect world.

[Viking]

I used to collect butterfly larvae and keep them until they became butterflies when I was a kid. The hardest ones to keep alive was those who fed on nettles. Then there was also those who got eaten up from the inside by wasp larvae.

I managed to find a video about the wasp larvae; note how the caterpillar is still alive after the parasites have exited the body

http://www.bugsinthepicture.com/movi...terpillar.html

[plutoboyz]

My fav!

[Zradha Pahlavan]

Now that's a good one.

[plutoboyz]

Indeed...

sadly, not many people like insect, particularly the Larva.

[Zradha Pahlavan]

It's because they're small and fast and often have lots of little legs. People don't like mice for a similar reason, though mice have it better since they're mammals and people like mammals more than other forms of life for some strange reason.
Then there are those people who seem to express fear of butterflies...truly bizarre, that.