Inchworm

Nycole Taliaferro
May 6, 2014
Found: on leaf on Jamestown Trail

Inchworms aren’t worms at all, but caterpillars who have legs at both ends of their bodies and none in the middle. Many types of inchworms eat only at night, coming out to feed when fewer predators are around.
Some inchworms can spin silk similar to what a spider makes. When danger approaches they can drop quickly from the leaves they are feeding on and hang from the end of a silken strand. The silk is soft at first but gets hard after awhile, and once the danger has passed the inchworms can climb back up to the leaves and go on eating.