But the knock-on effect is on nesting birds, which are also trying to hatch their chicks at the same time that there's the maximum number of caterpillars.
Then, terrified, they rush back to their mother and climb on her back to wait for what is now to them the tedious business of the rest of the hatching.
Is there enough time for whatever material went from Earth via panspermic direction, spraying the love gun out into the universe, did that then have enough time to incubate and go onto a planet that could support it?