Although the caterpillar goes throuigh an amazing metamorphosis to become a moth, passing through a stage where it completely dissolves into a soup while waiting for a total re-organization as a winged creature, the emerging moth has memories from its life as a creepy-crawly.
According to research conducted at Georgetown University and published in the journal PLoS One, when a caterpillar is trained to avoid a certain odor because of being shocked, it later avoids that same odor when it becomes a moth.
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