Lujan Eroles, 46, of the Argentine town of Santa Fe, claimed she began screaming as soon as she saw the strange creature. The neighbors came running to see what had occurred.

“I’ve never seen anything like it before.” He appeared to be a snake, but his eyes were odd. “I was worried it was poisonous,” she explained.

The thing Eroles captured is the color of a snake, yet it is just 10 cm long. The initial guesses regarding his species surfaced when she shared the video below on the Internet.

As a result, it would be the caterpillar of a Central American moth. To keep predators at bay, the caterpillar imitates the look of a snake because it lacks defensive weapons.