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Alligator Bug

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Description:

Peanut head or lantern bug

1 Species ID Suggestions

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ArisL
ArisL 7 months ago
Peantut-Headed Lanternfly
Fulgora laternaria Fulgora laternaria - Wikipedia


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9 Comments

Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander 10 years ago

Cool!

KareenKing
KareenKing 11 years ago

Incredible!

AndreaLim
AndreaLim 11 years ago

WOW I have never seen anything like that before. Great spotting!

DavidMroczkowski
DavidMroczkowski 11 years ago

Incredible! (It makes me laugh, too.)

MayraSpringmann
MayraSpringmann 11 years ago

Wow! Incredible!!

Jolly Ibañez
Jolly Ibañez 11 years ago

Very unusual spotting. Very nice!

Noah Ranger
The MnMs
The MnMs 11 years ago

It seems to mimic the head of a snake..wow! place it also in the mission for mimetic organisms:
http://www.projectnoah.org/missions/8015...

AnnvanWijgerden
AnnvanWijgerden 11 years ago

Fascinating critter!

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Leuba Ridgway
Leuba Ridgway 11 years ago


Interesting ! - and for more information
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgora_lat...

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MatthewKritzer
Spotted by
MatthewKritzer

Uvita, Puntarenas Province, Costa Rica

Spotted on Jun 23, 2012
Submitted on Jun 23, 2012

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