How about shedding your skin and dissolving your own muscles? Now, believe it or not, that gruesome process is how caterpillars earn their wings. Here's what you might not know about what's inside ...

Watch them from a distance, as the fuzzy, worm-like insects may leave you with a skin rash. You can get a caterpillar rash ...

6 Their caterpillars should get bigger, and might even shed their skin. 7 After a while, they will turn into a chrysalis. They will look as if they are dead, but wait patiently. 8 One day each ...

A caterpillar does this through a process that requires it to stop eating, hang itself upside down from a twig, wiggle from its skin underneath, and split itself open, shedding its former self.