r/interesting • u/AdvantageAdorable436 • 9h ago
Just Wow Business blocked main entrance to allow caterpillar to do its business.
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u/mafga1 9h ago
This is kinda sweet. I dunno much, but can you not relocate it!?
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u/jack_seven 7h ago
Not really depending on what stage they are in moving them can kill them I wouldn't attempt it without the help of an expert
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u/Rise-O-Matic 4h ago edited 4h ago
Only if you are prepared to carefully uninstall the handle from the door.
Actually, I’m exaggerating. We’ve done butterfly raising before and fallen chrysalis will usually emerge, but it’s riskier.
Sometimes it’s fine to tie it up somewhere with a piece of thread or floss. Just make sure you can tie a good knot and that it’s not going to fall.
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u/Palaeonerd 6h ago
If it were on a leaf or branch maybe because you can just cut the leaf or branch.
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u/Best-Tangelo-7803 1h ago
the innocent question that immediately triggered an entire butterfly relocation ethics debate, chaos from purity
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u/dunson28 8h ago edited 8h ago
Respect goes both ways. When we finally understand that we are not the only lifeforms on this planet and we can all coexist in harmony as nature intended, a lot of our future problems will have be solved. If, ever...
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u/Sea-Relationship9619 7h ago
So true. We should bend around nature, not expect nature to bend around us.
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u/jengaclause 7h ago
We used our garage entrance for a bit when we noticed a mama bird layed eggs in our front door wreath. Then had to wait some more for all of them to fly away.
The next season we installed a storm door so she relocated her nest to our front bush we had to walk past. 🤦♀️
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u/TheRealcebuckets 8h ago
Mom?
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u/Dependent_Stop_3121 8h ago
Yes sweetie?
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u/TheRealcebuckets 8h ago
You’re definitely not my mom. She’d never call me sweetie.
Her caterpillars, yes.
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u/OpenSourceEverything 8h ago
wait so they actually just blocked the door for it
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u/AlfalfaEfficient1200 8h ago
Yes. There was a guy a few months ago that bought a new pickup truck but a bird, the day before he went to pick it up, nested under the wheel well and laid eggs. So there his truck sits until they hatch and are able to leave. He reported that he's more amused by the situation than anything else.
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u/Houdinii1984 3h ago
I dunno what I would have done if my car was indisposed. That would require some thought and remediation, but everywhere else, it's a great feeling to help out.
I'm out in the desert and it's just very unforgiving for everything out here. I started with the cats because they were everywhere. Started a neutering campaign. Then dogs started showing up so I opened up the barn and set up a corner for wayward pups.
Then one day, we had a bad water leak that left a substantial puddle and omg the birds! So we put out fountains and that brought out nesting, so we'll go out there with chicken wire around wherever they decide to build, because there are no trees.
It's like a never ending chain. Flowers for the bees gives insects to the lizards. After like 12 years straight of just playing with my environment, it's like an oasis out here. It's so cool to just sit out there and realize I did all of it one little thing at a time, and its fun the entire time.
Feels a bit like time travel, though. Everything I change messes something else up, lol. Just taking care of the feral cats changed the entire dynamic. I didn't realize how predatory they can be unchecked.
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u/AlfalfaEfficient1200 3h ago
There is an argument to be made that cats aren't really domesticated in the way that dogs are. We domesticated dogs through training, selective breeding, and etc. House cats kind of domesticated themselves.
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u/mariblaystrice 1h ago
This is cute af. But I have worked with the public, that shit would get ignored, crushed, and they would yank on the locked door
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u/Final-Wasabi187 33m ago
We had a huge migration of this giant ass caterpillars one year. Would find several that would inch their way into our shop before we’d get there every morning. As I found them I’d scoop up and take outside and put in the bushes. Got teased but I didn’t care.
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u/CurtKobainsBurner 7h ago
or tie a string around the limb and relocate it
the ride might be bumpy but it’ll survive
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