There’s no denying Donald Trump is a big wig – but researchers have photographed a caterpillar that bears an uncanny resemblance to the property mogul’s hair.
With its brightly coloured, carefully parted ‘do’ the bizarre looking caterpillar has been compared to the U.S property mogul’s unique look.
The creature was spotted in the Amazon by friends Jeff Cremer, 34 and Phil Torres, 27, who run photography tours from Posada Amazonas, a 30 bed rainforest lodge in Peru.
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Conservation biologist Phil and wildlife photographer Jeff were leading a small group of tourists on a recent tour when Phil spotted the insect on a leaf and was so struck by its fluffy mane he couldn’t resist taking a photo.
Jeff said ‘On these tours we take tourists and photographers into the Amazon and point out cool and unusual things for them to photograph.
This is the equivalent of the ‘Donald Trump moth’s’ cocoon, however, the larva does not spin a cocoon in the conventional sense, instead the moth separates from its furry skin and uses it as a protective covering while it pupates
‘We have been leading photo tours together for two years and have never seen anything as strange as this.’
Phil, a seasoned field biologist, said ‘I’ve seen some bizarre looking caterpillars in my time of working in the field but this was definitely the weirdest one I’ve ever seen.
‘I wasn’t sure what I was looking at at first, it was this big yellow fuzzy thing.
‘I wasn’t sure what I was looking at at first, it was this big yellow fuzzy thing.
‘It’s actually a flannel moth caterpillar, they’re really rare, I’ve seen this type of caterpillar before but never one of this colour.
‘We put the picture of our Twitter and Facebook page and immediately people started comparing it to Donald Trump.
‘We didn’t see the resemblance when we first saw the caterpillar but looking at the photo it’s certainly similar to his hair.
‘We put the picture of our Twitter and Facebook page and immediately people started comparing it to Donald Trump.
‘We didn’t see the resemblance when we first saw the caterpillar but looking at the photo it’s certainly similar to his hair.
After the southern flannel moth has finished pupating and left its cocoon, it looks more like a bee than Donald Trump
‘It was pretty funny, people went mad for the photo comparing it to his toupee.
‘I think if Donald saw it himself, he’d find a reason to come down and check the caterpillar out.
‘It’s not the most approachable of caterpillars either- if you touch that thing it would seriously hurt, it has these little hairs that can poke into your skin and release a venom.
‘When we show people the image some don’t even know what it is, some think it’s a mammal others a bird or some have said a plant.
‘But to us and most of the people who’ve seen it, it’s Donald Trump’s toupee – left on a leaf in the Amazon.”
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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