Carnivorous UNDERCOVER caterpillar 🐛😎 | Wild Isles - BBC

"Hey, anyone noticed that our Queen's put on a lot of weight recently? ...And has started eating our babies?" "Shut it, the pheromones don't lie."

Soldier ant : you are not our queen Caterpillar: 'croaks' once Soldier ant : long live the queen 👑

You find a woman alone in the woods. She offers you your favorite fruit. She’s familiar. She tells you she’s weary and hurt and asks for shelter. As you lead her home, you realize why she’s familiar. She’s an old relative of the family! Of course! Got lost on her way to visit. And when you bring her home, everyone greets her after just a moment of confusion. Yes, yes, of course she’s remembered! She’s part of the family. She’s welcome. Months pass. Family members go missing. Gone, without a trace. You seek comfort in each other. Your relative is larger now, but that just makes it more comforting when she hugs. She’s grown so much since she came home. She’s always lived here. One day, you find yourself alone in the house. Everyone is gone. All that remains is some growth stuck to the floor. Like some kind of coffin. You feel like you should leave but you have nowhere to go. The growth is too large and heavy to move. You live around it. You long for your loved ones. Where have they gone? Then one day the growth splits. And out crawls the woman, one of your relatives! Except, no. She’s different now. Inhuman. With fuzz and wings and she looks at you like an insect, towering above you. “Thank you for the hospitality, cousin.” And she flies away. Leaving you alone in an empty nest.

Nature beats any Steven King horror novel hands down!

I remember seeing these little blue butterflies flying around in Germany. Never thought they would have such an interesting, extraordinary cycle of life…

Ant: "Excuse me. Why are you eating our babies.?" Caterpillar: "Er....I'm your Queen " Ant: "Oh right...carry on."

Holy, that's a risky game! It's crazy that they not only learned to puff up, but, the actual sounds a queen makes????

I understand that the caterpillar fools the ants into thinking it's one of them, but I am surprised that they don't notice the destruction of their own larvae.

This caterpillar bring the term “hiding in a plain sight” to the whole new level

Mother nature is a sight to behold.

Takes 'evil stepmother' to a WHOLE new level! 😳😬

Props to the camera man such dedication and bravery to shrink your self down to ant size

Conan O'Brian was right all along when he wrote for The Simpsons... "No one ever suspects a butterfly".

I love the joyful melody playing while the narrator gleefully exclaims that these nightmare creatures, once thought extinct, are now among us in dense population.

What amazes me is that the ants also seem not confused by having an "additional queen". They're like "yep, another queen, nothing silly going around here"

The more I learn about the different creatures in our planet the more I get amazed. Every creature has a unique role to play and its wonderful to know.

I always thought that Hawaii is the only place in the world to find carnivorous caterpillars until now.

I like how she leaves during spring, safe during winter and no need to fight her way out.

While I am not a fan of bugs for sure, this little video really mesmerised me and it's just made me think of the tiniest little bugs and a role that they play in our world. Simply amazing😮

This is AMAZING! All BBC footage is great but this one just stuck out to me today, WOW! The trickery of this caterpillar. I cannot believe it!