Rarely seen moments of metamorphosis. This 16 minute compilation of our videos is showing at a joint The Caterpillar Lab - Sam Jaffe Photography exhibit/gallery installed at Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus Ohio through September. I'll be posting images of the gallery soon! Teachers. I am hoping that you will find this video a valuable resource for your classes. Please use it freely in the classroom and remember to tell us about your experiences! View in HD for best results. - Sam TCL Dire
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Rarely seen moments of metamorphosis. This 16 minute compilation of our videos is showing at a joint The Caterpillar Lab - Sam Jaffe Photography exhibit/gallery installed at Franklin Park Conservatory in Columbus Ohio through September. I'll be posting images of the gallery soon! Teachers. I am hoping that you will find this video a valuable resource for your classes. Please use it freely in the classroom and remember to tell us about your experiences! View in HD for best results. - Sam TCL Dire
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🐛 The Caterpillar Lab Residency at CMBG is here! 🐛 If you caught our live video teaser a few minutes ago, this is the hornworm parasitism discussion with Sam Jaffe, director of The Caterpillar Lab. For more caterpillar fun, join us at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens through Monday, Aug. 31, while the residency is going on. | Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
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🐛 The Caterpillar Lab Residency at CMBG is here! 🐛 If you caught our live video teaser a few minutes ago, this is the hornworm parasitism discussion with Sam Jaffe, director of The Caterpillar Lab. For more caterpillar fun, join us at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens through Monday, Aug. 31, while the residency is going on. | Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
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Sam Jaffe has dedicated his life to revealing the hidden world of caterpillars. 🐛 As Founder and Director of @thecaterpillarlab he and his team care for thousands of these remarkable creatures, using photography and live programs to showcase their vital role in our ecosystems. #TVOOriginal “The Extraordinary Caterpillar” highlights their important work, bringing audiences up close to the beauty and significance of these tiny superheroes of biodiversity. Stream the documentary for free: https://
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Sam Jaffe has dedicated his life to revealing the hidden world of caterpillars. 🐛 As Founder and Director of @thecaterpillarlab he and his team care for thousands of these remarkable creatures, using photography and live programs to showcase their vital role in our ecosystems. #TVOOriginal “The Extraordinary Caterpillar” highlights their important work, bringing audiences up close to the beauty and significance of these tiny superheroes of biodiversity. Stream the documentary for free: https://
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A classic scene from a Jaffe family thanksgiving. We are all just a bunch of ravenous defoliaters. | The Caterpillar Lab
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A classic scene from a Jaffe family thanksgiving. We are all just a bunch of ravenous defoliaters. | The Caterpillar Lab
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Following up Sam's live video on slug caterpillars last week - Jack talks about his favorite caterpillar of all time, the denki mushi. | The Caterpillar Lab
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Following up Sam's live video on slug caterpillars last week - Jack talks about his favorite caterpillar of all time, the denki mushi. | The Caterpillar Lab
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You'd have a hard time spotting these caterpillars outside. (via bioGraphic) Video by Sam Jaffe of The Caterpillar Lab. See more amazing videos of native North American caterpillars at The Caterpillar Lab. | Seeker Media
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You'd have a hard time spotting these caterpillars outside. (via bioGraphic) Video by Sam Jaffe of The Caterpillar Lab. See more amazing videos of native North American caterpillars at The Caterpillar Lab. | Seeker Media
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One of our Cerura scitiscripta caterpillars shed for the camera earlier last week. Love the inflatable tails! Sam TCL Director | The Caterpillar Lab
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One of our Cerura scitiscripta caterpillars shed for the camera earlier last week. Love the inflatable tails! Sam TCL Director | The Caterpillar Lab
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Did you know our engineers get to experience our products years before they are even built? See our Virtual Reality Lab in action. 😎 | Caterpillar
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Hey everyone! We've been working on all sorts of new and exciting creative ideas for the lab! This is our first attempt at using illustration to showcase the anatomy of a caterpillar! We'd love your feedback. Want to see more of this? Inside a cocoon/inside a pupa? Parasitoids inside a caterpillar? Adult moth? Let us know! | The Caterpillar Lab
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On the road and always caterpillaring! | The Caterpillar Lab
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The latest dose of strange from The Caterpillar Lab: A look at the INSIDES of a living caterpillar! When viewed from below through a glass microscope slide, the transparent-bellied slug caterpillars offer a unique view into the inner workings of a caterpillar's body. At a recent outreach program we tried out this trick under our microscopes with a Nason's slug caterpillar (Natada nasoni) and were astounded by the details we were able to observe. Even though our Nason's slug caterpillar is restin
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Ants interacting with a silvery blue butterfly caterpillar at The Caterpillar Lab! One of the highlights of every summertime caterpillar lab show is watching these ant-caterpillar interactions play out under our digital microscopes. Last year we joined our audiences in awe as we observed inflating tentacular organs for the first time. Even our old-time caterpillar lab experts can still be suprised and delighted by these strange and complex little creatures. | The Caterpillar Lab
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A moment we sometimes wait hours just to watch - the inevitable yet often unseen process of a caterpillar molting its exoskeleton in order to grow larger! And what better caterpillar to demonstrate than the magnificently colorful larva of our cecropia moth, Hyalophora cecropia. The most reliable way we can determine that a caterpillar is getting close to shedding (aka pre-shed) is by looking at its head. At the beginning of the video, look at the dark head capsule of the cecropia and you can see
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The Caterpillar Lab is at the Discovery Museum in Acton, MA! Wondering what caterpillar is munching in this video?? Come check out our program and find out! We will be here Thursday-Sunday | The Caterpillar Lab
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Here’s a little slice of what we do at The Caterpillar Lab. Before our usual year-end updates, I want to share something bigger: we’re pursuing a major move into a new long-term home — a space that will let this work flourish for decades. If our mission speaks to you, and you’re in a position to help make a big step like this possible, please reach out. I’m happy to talk quietly, one-on-one. DM or contact me anytime. — Sam | The Caterpillar Lab
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On this Giving-Tuesday, please make a year-end contribution to support our outreach efforts in 2017. The Caterpillar Lab is a passionate organization, doing one-of-a-kind work that IS ONLY POSSIBLE with your help. http://www.thecaterpillarlab.org/support - Donate https://the-caterpillar-lab.myshopify.com - Donate and Shop Thank you all for the ongoing support! Mission Statement: "The Caterpillar Lab fosters greater appreciation and care for the complexity and beauty of our local natural history
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Have you ever seen a dot-lined white caterpillar before? Maybe you have but didn’t know it! Artace cribraria | The Caterpillar Lab
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A Wasp for a Wasp for a Caterpillar I am VERY excited to present this new video to you all! Let me know what you think! And share - I think our little hyperparasitoid deserves to go viral. It was a sureal moment when a tiny hyperparasitoid wasp showed up unannounced on my filming stage and began laying her eggs into the parasitoid braconid wasps that I had intended to film alone. I guess The Caterpillar Lab's indoor spaces have an ecology all their own! Detailed and specialized interactions like
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This is one of the stranger moments that we've captured at "The Caterpillar Lab" this season: A Saddleback Caterpillar (Acharia stimulea) sheds its skin into a flabby final instar. What a fantastic creature! | The Caterpillar Lab
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Suprise! The Caterpillar Lab was featured in a new documentary! This film is avaliable to our audience for a limited time online - check the comments for more information and answers to some frequent questions. Currious to see where all the magic happens? Stop by our physical location in Marlborough from 12-5pm on Friday 2/13 and Saturday 2/14, OR catch us at the Brattleboro Winter Farmer's Market on Saturday 2/14 from 10-2! | The Caterpillar Lab
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These colorful caterpillars are sending a strong warning message. (via bioGraphic) Video by Sam Jaffe of The Caterpillar Lab. See more amazing videos of native North American caterpillars at The Caterpillar Lab. | Seeker Media
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We're at the @arnold_arboretum and we can't wait to talk to you about native caterpillars! | The Caterpillar Lab
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Papaipema part 2! | The Caterpillar Lab
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The Whole Story: Caterpillars, Connections and Why Biodiversity Matters with Sam Jaffe
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SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY!! It’s not too late to catch us @quonquont_farm from 10-4 tomorrow! Reserve your parking in advance through their events page 😄 | The Caterpillar Lab
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Have you ever searched for caterpillars using an ultraviolet flashlight? It’s a trick of the trade that The Caterpillar Lab team utilizes frequently for finding native caterpillars at night, and a game changer to say the least! Many caterpillars fluoresce bright blue under ultraviolet light, making them stand out like light bulbs against their host plant in the dark of night - demonstrated wonderfully by this Polyphemus caterpillar! We recently started selling these wonderful UV flashlights thro
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And STILL, after so many years and so many caterpillars, these creatures can make my jaw drop. I was today years old when I saw a caterpillar wag its horn for the first time! Gaudy sphinx, Eumorpha labruscae, middle instar caterpillars can... apparently... make their horns "wag" in response to a threat. In their final instar these caterpillars lose their horns, and have a shiny false eye spot on their rear end instead. The false eye can twitch or "wink" making it look incredibly realistic... but
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Stop by our FREE open hours this week on Saturday 7/1 and Tuesday 7/4 from 12-5pm! | The Caterpillar Lab
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This year's 365 calendar is a veritable BOOK of caterpillar explorations! 52 unique locations. 261 species covered. 14,000 descriptive place-based words. Many new life histories and undescribed species. From backyards to mountaintops! | The Caterpillar Lab
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