Meet the caterpillars that build chrome home

Some whistle, some look like snakes and others inflate when you yell at them, but deep in the rainforests of South America lives a caterpillar with a getaway tactic so strange it hardly seems possible. To avoid being eaten, this creature rides eternal, shiny and chrome. 

Incubating inside this mirrored palace is Mechanitis polymnia, the orange-spotted tiger clearwing. And while it might seem that such flashy dwellings would leave this animal prone to predation, the opposite is true.