Monomad Challenge || Papilio polytes insect larvae.

5 months ago

My contribution to the #monomad challenge hosted and curated by @monochromes.

In the green grass bushes with open views, sometimes we can accidentally find various types of perfect mertamophosis larvae or insects better known as caterpillar and they are one of the insects that spend their life on the surface of green leaves which are also slime-bodied insects and some of them look a little scary with their bodies the size of a finger and their bodies are filled with fine, sharp hairs that look like thorns.

And in the last two days when I fertilized the orange vegetable plants in my farm yard, I found caterpillar larvae on the surface of the branches of the orange plants and they looked very unique and they one of the Larval insectsPapilio polytes namely caterpillars that have a slimy body texture with a characteristic green color and are of course quite easy to camouflage with the color of plant leaves.

And if we look at the striking uniqueness of this insect larva, it can be seen from the shape of the head which is integrated with the body and also the size of the body, the cranium looks bigger and is patterned with colored bands shaped like eyes and these caterpillars have a pair of slime antennas hidden in their skull and they will emit these slime antennas if you accidentally touch them.

And in my publication today you can find several pictures of that typical texture characteristics of mertamophosis insect larvae in several pictures.