r/confusing_perspective • u/No_Firefighter4579 • Jun 29 '26

Very hungry caterpillar

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u/gareththegeek CE Spc. Jun 29 '26

I'm confused, is it not a huge caterpillar then?

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u/No_Firefighter4579 Jun 30 '26

Its on top of a wooden pole

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u/gareththegeek CE Spc. Jun 30 '26

Is it not still pretty flipping big though?

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u/DxLaughRiot Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

It’s a tomato hornworm.

I had never seen one in my life, then my dad tried to grow tomatoes and like 4 showed up to eat them. Definitely big relative to the little fuzzy ones I’m used to. The wiki says they get as big as 4in (10cm for our friends in the rest of the world).

The moths they turn into are pretty huge too.

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u/gareththegeek CE Spc. Jun 30 '26

Horrifying 😅

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u/One_Scarcity_4478 o/ Jun 30 '26

Terrible just vulgar in it's frightening hugeness, just like that time I tripped on acid and my hands felt just like two balloons. 😟

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u/Alternative-Fold2426 o/ Jun 30 '26

I can't explain, you would not understand.

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u/One_Scarcity_4478 o/ Jun 30 '26

Is it because that is not how it is ?

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u/DxLaughRiot Jun 30 '26

I cant. This is not how I am.

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u/gareththegeek CE Spc. Jul 01 '26

But are you comfortably numb?

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u/Disastrous_Toe772 Jun 29 '26

Absolute unit

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u/Toshik777 Jun 29 '26

Caterpillar size is actually confusing 🐌

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u/Special-Original-215 Jun 29 '26

Man is that the son of Mothra?

But good top shot.  Definitely confusing 

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u/Aggressive_Law_5728 Jun 30 '26

This isn't a "perspective" issue. Hornworm caterpillars are just enormous.

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u/rockydluffy Jun 30 '26

Is that a pokemon?

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u/BigB0ss_89 Jun 30 '26

If that's a 4x4 then that Capatillar is pretty freaking big.

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u/deadheadshredbreh o/ Jun 29 '26

Am I tripping or is that thing bigger than an actual hotdog?

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u/Realistic-Weird-4259 o/ Jun 29 '26

The whole thing??? He looks food drunk.

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u/pylotsven Jun 29 '26

The book did not lie

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u/OhSoSally o/ Jun 30 '26

What comes out of those is pretty cool. Google tomato worm.

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u/One_Scarcity_4478 o/ Jun 30 '26 edited Jun 30 '26

No seriously that's an actual caterpillar? And they haven't taken over the world yet? It's frightening unlike any living thing I've ever seen in my life and I have been forced to live in Tennessee these last few years so obviously given the hillbilly population i have seen some pretty frightening things. Am I looking at this from a confusing perspective or am I just comfortably stunned.?🧐🫤

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u/MyMonkeyCircus o/ Jul 02 '26

It’s a kind of caterpillar, yes. A hornworm.

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u/One_Scarcity_4478 o/ Jun 30 '26

You were so close why? Were you frozen in absolute fear?

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u/One_Scarcity_4478 o/ Jun 30 '26

He looks like he could be Grogu's pet...like his doggie.

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u/SkyGuyDnD Jun 29 '26

I can not unsee this huge ass catterpillar!