By Jill Harness on April 26, 2012, with 44 Comments
Just look at that cute, fuzzy little caterpillar. It has such vibrant colors and those spines seem so unintimidating that they’re mere existence is actually kind of adorable.
But, wait a minute… we are on Mighty Optical Illusions blog! An ordinary picture of a caterpillar (no matter how cute it is), would just be weird here. Fortunately, this’s not a little baby butterfly, it’s actually a group of European Bee-eaters cuddling together on a small tree branch. The birds do look so much like a caterpillar though, that photographer José Luis Rodríguez named the image Oruga de Plumas, or “caterpillar of feathers.”
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OH MY LAWD.
Adorable.
awww..they’re cute!
They’re so cute. I want them!
ok that is a good one
Yeah, very good.
so cute love it
Wonderful picture! Thank you!!
This is so cool- can it be done with any thing else? :) ;)
Very Cool Love it !! I would love a picture of this to hang on my wall , it is really cool
I thought it was a caterpillar till I saw the title. Beautiful
WOW! I think this is the best illusion I’ve ever seen on MOI
Sorry, all I saw when I looked at it was birds. I can see a Caterpillar now it’s pointed out, but not originally.
The tail kinda gives it away
The birdies are soooooooo cute!!! :3
I dunno about you guys, but I saw the birds first. Then when I saw the title, I thought it was a caterpillar that looked like a bunch of birds…but it wasn’t.
love love love love love!!!!!!
At first i thought it was a caterpillar that looked like birds…
still cool though
cool, I just sent this to my mother and the first things she said was “What a pretty caterpillar.”
Saw the birds right away but CUTE!!! =)
props to the birdwatch who got this shot!
I do not see any caterpillar?
if that’s an acttual picture i want to know how they took it with out scareing the birds!
I thought it was a caterpillar with spikes…
I WANT THE BIRDS.
like what most people have said ADORABLE !!!!!
That’s one of the coolest pictures I’ve ever seen!
I think it must work better as a thumbnail.
I have the MOI as a thing on my iGoogle home page, and every single time I’ve seen the picture from there, I see it as a caterpillar
Def works well as thumbnail, saw caterpillar when saw it on google, took me a little while to work out what the title meant then saw the birds! Is a really good one actually.
An avion species of like plumage congregates…
I love this pic so much I took a shot of it with my phone & made it my wallpaper.
Very neat natural illustion.
Cute very cute!
It looked like birds from the start…bit like that Pixar animation.
Good one!!
I Know right
It’s THEIR existence, not they’re existence.
fooled me!
OMG its a catipiler but sooooooo cute
Awwww so cute! I love nature <3<3
Awwwww! adorable! I wish some cardinals would do that right outside my house! :)
at first i was like “eww, caterpillar…”
Then I was like “Awwww! Birdies!”
Awesome
I see only birds. I can’t see a caterpillar even when I try to.
guys the birds look like birds but its a CATERPILLER but i do admit it is cute and agree with Dave k
I had no idea I was looking at birds until I got to the point in the article when I was told what I was lookig at, so, wow!!!!
Where is the caterpillar?