This video is about a special caterpillar on a mat.
It is a caterpillar of a pale tussock moth.
The Dutch name for this species is meriansborstel, Merian’s brush; named after famous seventeenth century naturalist and painter of insects Maria Sibylla Merian.
Jos van Zijl in the Netherlands made the video.
See also here.
beautiful
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Indeed! This species fully deserves to be called after that famous painter and entomologist.
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