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Post by lizb on Aug 18, 2015 14:33:38 GMT
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Post by alf1951 on Aug 19, 2015 4:49:57 GMT
I couldn't confirm or refute your ID but I just think they are amazing images - never seen anything like it.
Alf
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Post by silversea on Aug 20, 2015 16:02:21 GMT
It is usually Cordyceps that inhabit the host like this, don't know if that is what this is though. It might be.
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Post by teasel on Aug 24, 2015 9:55:22 GMT
I think it's a hatched harlequin ladybird pupa - the feathery bits give it a common name crown of thorns. I think I read that here a few months ago  |
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Post by dogghound on Sept 2, 2015 6:57:30 GMT
Yes this is an empty harlequin pupa in which the ladybird had left. The thorns are the old larval skin which often remains attached as the pupa forms.
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