“Inch by inch it’s a cinch. Yard by yard it’s really hard.” - Inchworm Inchworms are not worms but tiny caterpillars that belong to the geometridae family of moths. 🤯 The word geometridae comes from a Greek word meaning, “measure the earth”. 📏 Unique among caterpillars, inchworms have three pairs of front legs and either two or three pairs of rear legs, but no legs in the center. When walking, inchworms move their rear legs forward, creating a loop in their middles, and then move their front legs forward. On sensing a possible predator, they become still and resemble a twig. They are also known to produce silk that they can hang from. In case of danger, they drop quickly (Mission Impossible style, we presume) from the leaves they feed on and hang from the end of the silken strand. (Watch that drop of sweat!) Once its safe, they get back up and continue eating. Mood. What small things in nature have you discovered? Image: Close-up of an inchworm crawling along at @tontonps. NPS...