Best of Mike #329

Here comes a Bearded Fireworm. He has crawled across the sandy bottom and is now climbing up a coral head to continue his journey.

The do have a fleshy beard-like appendage on their head and their body is adorned with white bristles and red filament tufts.

To me, it seems like he has to be some distant relation to a caterpillar.... but he is nothing to be picked up like you might do a fuzzy caterpillar. 

The "fire" is his name refers to the painful sting that he will deliver if you come in contact with those white bristles.