The subject is a larval looking organism that is moving around. It was placed in the bowl along with some wood chips, which would lead me to believe that it prefers to be buried in the wood chip material. While it looks like it is trying to eat the woodchips sometimes, it is not trying to eat them. It has as pale green color with dark green lines on its main body segment that is about 1.25 cm long 0.25 cm thick, however that length varies as the organism changes shape when it moves. As it moves in a circular pattern around the bowl, I can see its white insides moving around as the pale green color comes from a somewhat translucent tissue layer on top of its inner organs. The entire body is covered by this translucent layer except for the tip of the tail. The dark lines that go throughout the main body segment looks as though they could be an organ system instead of just for decoration. The head of the organism has a lot of the dark coloration underneath the pale green layer of tissue. Perhaps the dark green is part of nervous system or circulatory system. It also has a dark green tail of some kind that is about 1.5 cm long and about 0.5 mm in thickness. It moves in a way that is very similar to a caterpillar. It seems to lead its motion with the opening of its mouth and then contracts its body and extends it. When looking at the underside of it, it has 8 pairs of “legs”. In addition to that it has a mouth on the bottom of its body at the front of the main body segment. When I touched the organism to move it to a place it could be measured, it had a very soft touch to it and felt very fragile. Whenever I touch the organism, it seems to freeze up for a couple seconds. Once I stop touching it, it resumes moving around the bowl.
One thing that I would want to know is what the creature would eat. If I put the organism on a leaf, would it eat the leaf? In addition to that, I am curious where it prefers to live. If I put it in an environment with dirt, would it try to burrow down to find safety? Or is it used to being up in a tree and munching on leaves? Ideally, I would try to let it grow up into its adult stage to figure out what this organism is the larval version of.
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