If you glanced at this for just a brief moment, I might be able to convince you that it’s a brightly-colored (and hence perhaps distasteful or dangerous) caterpillar.
It’s not, of course. Look closer. Some of you will know what this is; for the answer, see Wild Wonders of Europe, where it won a photo competition.
h/t: Michael
Bee-eaters!
Just amazing picture! I am reading “The Field Book of a Jungle-Wallah: Being a Description of Shore, River and Forest Life in Sarawak” (1929) by Charles Hose, which is a great natural history book, and he talks about the local migratory bee-eaters, nesting in holes in the sandy soil.
How gorgeous!
Yesterday I saw a thumbnail of that on an image-sharing website, and yes, I had no doubt at the time that it was a distasteful but marvelous caterpillar.
Very cool and very beautiful!
That blue really looks unnatural, like something from a dye laboratory. Amazing.
Wow, totally thought it was a caterpillar. Got one of those cool “oh!” moments when I read what it really is.
Of course it’s not a caterpillar, it’s a Hallucigenia.
Birds! Bee Eaters with a sense o’ humor!
So it’s a birderpillar?
Great photo!
So . . . it’s a transitional species?
So, why are there still birds and caterpillars???? Eh, arrogant, strident atheist???!!!
.. created by god during hallucinogenic transitions .. ?
Thereby putting a new twist on the Donald Williamson (and Margulis ushered)paper on the evolutionary development of butterflies through hybridization between worm-like creatures and winged ancestors.
Amazing
Easily fooled by the scale. Charming photo.
It’s a ‘miracle’ photo!
Now I feel as jealous as jehovah…
Fabulous! What a lovely shot.
Can’t fool me. Usually. Okay. this time. It’s da birdies, isn’t it?
Hmmm, I think I have a new wallpaper.
Anyone else see the third from the left as having a slightly different blue hue?
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