Ingo Arndt / Cup Moth (Acharia nesea) caterpillar, Costa Rica

Piotr Naskrecki / Looper Moth (Geometridae) caterpillar with aposematic coloration, Atewa Range, Ghana

Chien Lee / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas) male, Khao Yai National Park, Thailand

Konrad Wothe / Atlas Moth (Attacus atlas), native to southeast Asia

Chien Lee / Saturniid Moth (Loepa megacore), Mount Kinabalu National Park, Borneo, Malaysia

Mark Moffett / Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus orbicollis) recycles a dead rat by laying eggs near its body then feeding larvae bits of regurgitated carcass

Mitsuhiko Imamori / Suraka Silk Moth (Antherina suraka) portrait, showing back with wings spread displaying shades of pink, Madagascar

Mark Moffett / Slug Caterpillar (Setora fletcheri) shows warning coloration and spines loaded with toxins that erect when the animal is disturbed, Tam Dao National Park, Vietnam

Piotr Naskrecki / Cup Moth (Phobetron sp) caterpillar, Suriname

Ingo Arndt / Saddleback Moth (Sibine horrida) caterpillars with poisonous spines, Costa Rica

Ingo Arndt / Saddleback Moth (Sibine horrida) caterpillar with poisonous spines, Costa Rica

Ingo Arndt / Saddleback Moth (Sibine horrida) caterpillars with poisonous spines, Costa Rica