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Chetogena sp.
About 9 months ago I found a moth cocoon which was slightly unusual in size, colour and location so I decided to grow it out. Today shock, horror and delight when a fly finally opened the lid, climbed out and stretched it's wings.
On a Grevillea stem growing closely entwined with a small eucalyptus tree in a local nature reserve.
Original moth cocoon spotting here (Doratifera vulnerans) http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/198...
Caterpillar which made the cocoon http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/200...
Known parasite of D.vulnerans - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf...
All sorts of questions are raised !! Missions?... started as a moth finished as a fly.
Spotted on Dec 11, 2014
Submitted on Dec 11, 2014
9 Comments
There are amazing things out there, and I think that you have found one of them.
This is brilliant, Mark. Excellent observations.
AWESOME!
How interesting !
Nice spotting and peculiar experience! :-)
cool
Great spotting, Mark. Fits very weel in the "Arthropods parasitised by other arthropods" mission. Congrats.
Bugger.
The same happened to me last season.
http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/134...
This is why gall identifications are sometimes so hard.
Gob-smacked !! Brilliant as far as spottings go... The other amazing and puzzling bit was all the cup moth cocoons on the neighbouring gum tree were raided but nothing had touched this cocoon - wonder why ??