This is the story of Gabriel, the caterpillar. Gabriel is a slow-moving kind of guy, crawling through life at a very steady pace. He eats plants while he is in his larval state, growing and shedding his skin several times. When he is fully grown, Gabriel will find a hiding place where he will hang out as a pupa until it is his butterfly time in the Land of Terra.
You might think that one tiny caterpillar doesn’t even matter, but this is not the case. After Gabriel changes into a butterfly, he becomes a pollinator. Every third bite that humans take comes from the work of a pollinator. If you save a caterpillar, you save a butterfly and maybe you help to feed a person. Even if you have enough food in your part of Terra, there are others in faraway lands who need pollinator foods. Perhaps one little caterpillar and one single human can help to feed all of Terra.
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