That’s gonna be one big butterfly someday

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thats pretty rich from all my friends to u

— elijah · Feb 20, 06:39 AM · #

Woooooahhhhhh!!! That mustah felt GROSS!

— Amy · Feb 26, 06:28 PM · #

the first message makes me think we are heading backwards as a society, what the hell are you taking about rich from all my friends?????? dumb ass

— your mama · Mar 3, 01:24 PM · #

Whoa My God…that thing is huge..and looks so nasty..

— HardCore!Gamer · Mar 26, 12:28 PM · #

That looks like a grub, not a caterpillar. Probably the larval stage of a beetle. Still the biggest grub I’ve ever seen.

— Marshall · Mar 27, 11:48 AM · #

got dammm! dats a big ass caterpillar shit wat did u feed da thing can i have one? maby not lol

— Miami · Apr 2, 08:03 AM · #

Not real. Look at the feathering round the edge of the grub – it looks out of focus because it has been softened in photoshop to make it easier to blend into the background. The shadow on the dude’s hand also looks unconvincing (doesn’t fit properly with the contour of his flesh – under the grub’s head end his hand looks concave) and the tail and of the beasty looks superimposed because there’s something subtly wrong with the lighting.

— Lewis · Apr 11, 02:34 AM · #

Damn Nature!!! You Scary!

— Anon · Apr 11, 09:14 AM · #

I don’t think it’s the same species, but I found more huge grub pictures!
http://www.naturalworlds.org/goliathus/manual/Goliathus_breeding_3.htm

— aria · Apr 11, 09:19 PM · #

It’s people like you, Lewis, who make me glad that I don’t have to meet the others who post here.Did you consider the possibility that the “bad lighting” was due to this picture being taken OUTSIDE – perfect lighting would be more indicative of a fake. No offence to the rest of you guys…

— Latex Santa · Apr 24, 04:57 AM · #

The worlds largest insect to date is the African Goliath Beetle (Goliathus) which during L3 is I believe the largest grub in the world.

It does not even approach that things apparent weight or length.

If it is real how about some citation/explanation/location and some other photos?

I’m inclined to call Bravo Sierra.

— Brandon M. Sergent · Apr 26, 09:23 PM · #

It is people like you, Latex Santa, that make me realise how lucky I was to be born with more than one brain cell to rub against the other.

— Lewis · Apr 27, 02:55 PM · #

its shopped. i can tell because of some of the pixels, and because i have seen quite a few shops in my time

— totaly shopped · May 10, 09:27 AM · #

Comment number 11, Brandon M. Sergent is correct! People this day are fuckers for trying to make this fake as shit! I’m not sure if this is real or not, looks real to me, but at the same time anything is possible now! Should there be a video and more pictures, location and more info! Things like this would be better for everyone to understand! If it’s just a picture, with no info! Things are always harder to understand! Fuck! PhotoShop is possible, and so is that it could be real…

— Freddy · May 13, 12:52 AM · #

It’s fake. Even upon first glance you can tell that the scaling is totally out of proportion with the hand. Amateur at best.

— Greg · May 18, 10:31 AM · #

That is definately a goliath grub, they can get this big.
Also the lighting and the crumbs on grub and hand match perfectly.

— kera · May 21, 05:25 AM · #

Did you fart so hard you ended up in another zip code?

— Freddy · Jun 23, 05:31 PM · #

There is no way that that is real- even if it looked non-shooped, which it totally doesn’t, there is no grub that big.

— TheGabe · Jul 2, 05:05 PM · #

I saw that beast (well probably not that one actually) on natural geographic channel…it was a documentary on gross and very big insencts…so i guess it can be real…

— Kaktus · Jul 13, 08:13 AM · #

fuck no
step on that

— ali · Jul 20, 03:19 AM · #

That is a grub, its not a caterpillar, stupid idiot! Do some research!

— Unknown · Jul 24, 09:02 PM · #

the head makes it look like a beetle grub… but that would be some huge beetle

— uhh · Jul 27, 02:48 PM · #

Looks somewhat like a Termite Queen to me, yank em out of trees/mounds in aus, fry em up and eat em, shit taste but it’s protien!

— Termite? · Aug 29, 11:24 AM · #

OMG, I can not believe that a butterfly can come out of that…Maybe the Tooth Fairy :D Or the Fairy of the Forest, but not a butterfly…
I hope it will get better looks soon, whatever it is…

— Giulia · Aug 29, 11:35 AM · #

this thing is fake haha its obvious

— wtf · Sep 2, 06:29 PM · #

Ewww!

— SP · Nov 4, 07:08 AM · #

maybe the person has freakishly small hands…
like the guy in the burger king commercials
:P

— Rolling Stoner · Nov 4, 05:18 PM · #