biomorphosis:

This is not a tasty gummy sweet but a Jewel Caterpillar found in Amazon Rainforest. They are covered with sticky goo-like, gellatinous tubercles that provides protection from its predator like ants until they metamorphosise into winged moths.

aND THE LOVELY JEWEL CATERPILLAR TURNS INTO

Dalceridae adult

PIPE CLEANERS WITH WINGS