Caterpillar.

CATERPlLLAR, BUTTERFLY

That's Datin' That Henry Grubstick.

It looks kind of like a maggot with big, nasty jaws.

Or another analogy would be, a caterpillar has been turned into a butterfly.

If a larva lands on the open sea floor, then it will become a female.

So all the cells have jobs. The caterpillar's growing.

This veliger larvae will turn into a snail this zoea, into a crab and this planula, into a clytia jelly.

The larva grows and grows and grows, then makes a pupa, kind of like a cocoon.

But if it lands on top of a female, then it will become a male.

You can retain your caterpillar status and go, Oh my God, the sky is falling! and be in fear, or you can say, The caterpillar's going.

Grub, ho! now cried the landlord, flinging open a door, and in we went to breakfast.

And so, where are we? We're at the demise of the caterpillar stage of civilization and the rise of the butterfly.

For this species, it is simply a matter of where a larva happens to randomly fall on the sea floor.

Those are the cells that move the caterpillar around structures of like our highways with trucks and vehicles carrying materials all over the place. Something like that.

If I sit there and bemoan the loss of the caterpillar, then I'm making myself sick and everything around me.

The larvae are not fully aquatic, but spend the daytime in the soil near the water.

Some cells are the motility cells.

If you were a cell in that caterpillar body at that time, you would look around and say, Oh my God, our world is coming to an end!

So there's a transition from an old world of caterpillar with an old belief system and an old way of life that was no longer sustainable.

Already, commercial oyster larvae are dying at large scales in some places.

A caterpillar represents, let's say, seven billion cells living under the same skin. Each cell is a citizen. And guess what?

If you take a sea urchin larva from 8.1, put it in a pH of 7.7 not a huge change it becomes deformed and dies.

And then, the caterpillar reaches a certain stage of growth, and at that stage of growth, it just stops eating, it can't take it any more at this point.

Other caterpillars have evolved from ant loving to ant eating these myrmecophagous caterpillars secrete a pheromone that makes the ants act as if the caterpillar is one of their own larvae.

Larvae go through four moreinstars, and in each moult there is separation of the older cuticle but no discarding ( apolysis without ecdysis ), leading to multiple layers being formed around the larvae.

As soon as the beetles come to the stage in life in which they mature to adulthood, the larva crawl from the water on the sturdy legs, and bury themselves in the mud for pupation.

And as the food shuts down, then the other jobs are affected, because if there's no food, then there's no energy, and all the systems start laying off cells, and pretty soon, there's massive chaos under the skin of the caterpillar.