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About 0,5 cm long. Covered in a slime with inside looks like small worms?? Was together several other spieces who where about 3 a 4 times bigger. The big ones just hanging underneath a leaf while this smalder one was crawling around.
Spotted on Oct 10, 2017
Submitted on Oct 10, 2017
3 Comments
Oh. The wait is over.
Just have read in a related spotting's comment, that this is not an infection, but the opposite. It is. some kind of symbiosis, an unique defense mechanism for not to be eaten...! (:
Watching this horrific scene, many other things, but "cute" I would think of...!(?)
Whether this poor caterpillar is about to be eaten alive by those revolting worms I wonder..?
Will wait for answer by some experts around.
Thanks for interesting spotting!
Cute