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 catterpilar inside 'not' spider net ?
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| BubikolRamios |
Posted on 18-05-2011 07:51
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Member Location: Slovenia Posts: 1728 Joined: 14.06.09 |
It does not look like spider thing to me. Body of catterpilar like 6-7 mm. Under apple tree leave. Any commments ? BubikolRamios attached the following image:  [99.35Kb] Edited by BubikolRamios on 18-05-2011 19:54 highly searchable nature photo galery --> http://agrozoo.ne....jsp?l2=en |
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| Nikolai Morozov |
Posted on 18-05-2011 20:25
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Member Location: Russia, Moscow region Posts: 52 Joined: 12.06.09 |
Moth caterpillar? It seems green gastric contents are visible. Preparing to pupate? I don't sure, but some ichneumonids parasitize on some (e. g. tetragnathid) spiders. On final stage larva suck out the spider's opisthosoma and then it pupate in dead spider's web. |
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| Juergen Peters |
Posted on 18-05-2011 20:33
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 Member Location: northwest Germany Posts: 14250 Joined: 11.09.04 |
Hi! It's the pupation net of the Apple Leaf miner Lyonetia clerkella (Lyonetiidae). http://www.ukmoth...hp?id=1696 Best regards, Jürgen -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Juergen Peters Borgholzhausen, Germany WWW: http://insektenfo... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= |
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| BubikolRamios |
Posted on 18-05-2011 20:53
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Member Location: Slovenia Posts: 1728 Joined: 14.06.09 |
Thanks ! I guess if i make a net around that leaf I could catch whatewer will emerge. Edited by BubikolRamios on 18-05-2011 21:16 highly searchable nature photo galery --> http://agrozoo.ne....jsp?l2=en |
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