What does the Bible say about caterpillar?

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The Bible presents caterpillars, or devouring locust-like insects, chiefly as instruments of God’s providential judgment, while also displaying His power to restore what sin and calamity have consumed. In Psalm 78:46 and Psalm 105:34, God sent such creatures upon Egypt in judgment. Joel 1:4 portrays a devastating succession of devourers that calls God’s people to lament and return to Him, while Joel 2:25 promises that the Lord can restore the years the swarming locust has eaten. 1 Kings 8:37 includes pestilence and crop-destroying insects among afflictions for which Israel should seek God’s mercy. Jeremiah 51:27 uses locusts as an image of an overwhelming army.