What is This Strange Creature With Two Heads and Three Eyes? - Neatorama

Facebook user Lujan Eroles ran across this strange creature with two heads, three eyes and a weird skin and asked the Interweb to help identify it.

It's probably a caterpillar, but that's a boring answer. I vote for the double-headed serpent, a gift by Aztec emperor Moctezuma II to Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes, came to life.

Let's poke it with a stick:

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Yikes! You're absolutely right alabouttown - I shouldn't have Googled that, either!

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That scary caterpillar turns out to be a GORGEOUS moth! Thank you for finding that, gwdMaine!

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It's an Elephant Hawk Moth Caterpillar and apparently regularly make the "what is it" rounds on the interweb. From the UK with a video of it eating:

http://bit.ly/2mJbITU

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I like bugs AND snakes, but SWEET MAMA JAMA, I shouldn't have googled that.

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Someone on Facebook ID'd it as a Hemeroplanes triptolemus caterpillar.
Nature is scary even when it's not.

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