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 mistery imprint of a big insect
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| mwkozlowski |
Posted on 12-10-2007 17:45
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 Member Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 791 Joined: 17.10.06 |
I was given this picture from a man who took it some 7 years ago from long time forotten ragg in central Poland. Could somebody try to indentify the insect; more then 10 cm long!
mwkozlowski attached the following image:  [71.92Kb] Edited by mwkozlowski on 12-10-2007 17:46 |
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| jorgemotalmeida |
Posted on 12-10-2007 18:42
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 Member Location: Viseu - PORTUGAL Posts: 9296 Joined: 05.06.06 |
i don?t know.. but I have a feeling that this is a fake... |
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| Isidro |
Posted on 12-10-2007 22:56
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Member Location: Zaragoza, Spain Posts: 2101 Joined: 26.04.07 |
Yes, it' looks a joke, because the insects looks very much a bird louse (Mallophaga) and, clearly, any louse can be as big as this one!!! |
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| Tony Irwin |
Posted on 13-10-2007 00:29
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 Member Location: Norwich, England Posts: 7306 Joined: 19.11.04 |
I wonder whether this was an impression made by a bee ... a solitary bee that made at least 9 cells and stocked them with pollen ...? Tony ---------- Tony Irwin |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 13-10-2007 05:42
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 Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
Cockroach?
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| mwkozlowski |
Posted on 13-10-2007 10:11
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Member Location: Warsaw, Poland Posts: 791 Joined: 17.10.06 |
Cockroach (so giant?!) is rather impossible, because of the lack of pronotum. A bee is an iterressting alternative though rather impossible suggestion. I have lately herd a rationable point from my lepidopteraen colegue. For him it is evidentely a smashed body of Death's Head Hawk-moth (Acherontia atropos)! All the structures of the abdomen have here its well representation; and size also fits well. |
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| Susan R Walter |
Posted on 13-10-2007 13:00
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Member Location: Touraine du Sud, central France Posts: 1802 Joined: 14.01.06 |
I'm Australian - I've seen some serious cockroaches 
Susan |
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