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Egg sac?
Peruvian Amazon near Iquitos
Spotted on Sep 20, 2008
Submitted on Jul 4, 2012
9 Comments
Best of wishes Christa!
Love this! Thanks for sharing all your great photos from the Loreto/Iquitos area of Peru on our mission! We are gearing up for Amazon Awareness Week with Project Noah (sometime between July 8 and 22) and hope you will be on board to help with ID and comments!
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8910...
Thanks!
~ Christa Dillabaugh, Education Director, Amazon Workshops
Thank you Mayra
Beautiful capture!
Thank you Forest Dragon and Bayucca
The question would be what your dog is doing on that tree ;-)...
bayucca, very true. I think I have shaved mats off of cats and dogs that looked a lot like this.
At first sight it may look like a caterpillar, but the Megalopygidae I saw have usually a better hairdresser, meaning regularely combed hairs.
Perhaps a caterpillar? There are some species of moths that have caterpillars that look very similar. Unfortunately, I am not familiar with Amazonian caterpillars. Good luck with an ID!