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Bag caterpillar IMG 6439
- This strange
creature protects itself from attack by predators such as birds by constructing
a bag made from fragments of twigs and other plant material and that is held
together by silk that it creates. It emerges to feed, dragging the bag along
with it as it travels slowly across the landscape, and vanishes back into it the
moment there is any hint of danger.
