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Saw a lot of these empty pupal
Dark brown/rust-colored hard-cased
the pic is taken when it is just emerged from its
Belongs to the family Danidae !
Lymantriidae family, with red head and orange tufts at the back. It ventured ...
Still with buckled wing covers this ladybird is almost fully out of it's
Strange little cases built with a few ...
Two miniature 'raku' pots with hexagonal wavy rims stacked on a callistemon ...
Large, variably-colored lady beetle native to Japan. Spotted this individual ...
Pretty brown moth emerged today. Before I could take a second pic - it was ...
looks like this ladybug stepped out a while ago from this empty
A cocoon made up of golden threads...punctuated with holes...makes me wonder ...
used for ecolsion from the pupal
larva turned into this dark pre-pupal ...
On a leaf were two small angular stacked pot-shaped structures about 10 mm ...
translucent to begin with but the colour darkens. There was a silver stud-like ...
exit hatch for the emerging adult. We can sometimes see the empty
pointing downwards.
Beside the female was a hairy cocoon and an empty
thousand eggs still inside, her offspring hatch and pass through her body, ...
the top opening, is also the exit hatch for the emerging adult. Sometimes the ...
