This is not a tasty gummy sweet but a Jewel Caterpillar found in Amazon Rainforest. They are covered with sticky goo-like, gellatinous tubercles that provides protection from its predator like ants until they metamorphosise into winged moths.
Be honest, this is a pokemon.
YO, POKEMON FOUND IN THE AMAZON, SIGNAL BOOST
Okay I hate bugs but I kind of like this.