speaking of butterflies, the other day I saw a caterpillar covered in these little white "bundles" about the size and shape of a rice grain. I looked it up, turns out there's some wasp that lays eggs in the caterpillar, they hatch, eat their way out, then form a cocoon while the poor caterpillar dies slowly - this poor sucker was still moving faintly, but couldn't crawl away when poked
This is not "my" caterpillar, but same kind and about the same number of eggs. Kinda feel sorry for the little critter.
"Soo ..itchy ..... no fingers.... oww..."