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Field Notes

Notes:

I just spotted two insects sticked together. Does anyone know what are they? - when looking them closely their eyes and legs looks like a spider, but I can see some wings. They are almost 1,50 cm each.
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If you go full screen, you can see a little more.

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Comments (10)
Carolina
Its such a weird bug, half of the insect looks like a spider, but I'm still confused about the other half!
bayucca
That's the body of the spider, right one not and left one some kind of "transparent". What do you think???
Carolina
If you go full screen you can see them on the middle of the image.
Carolina
Thank you guys for trying to help me IDing this! I'm loving this spotting, I also see the wings Karen! And I'm not sure about the size normal stick bugs are, but the ones on my photo were really that small, I measured them with a ruler.
KarenSaxton
I do see the wings - unless you have an explanation for that. Seems too small to be mating stick bugs, but what else could it be?
bayucca
I might be completely wrong (see my comment below), but I now think this might actually be spiders from the Urobodidae family. In this case the sticking would be mating procedure?
bayucca
I would have thought of a Diet Stretch Shrimp... To be serious, looks like a nymph of phasmids as Karen already pointed out. In this case they are not mating but just sticking together (by hazard?). Or I am complitely wrong.
KarenSaxton
stick insects or walking sticks. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phasmatodea
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PublishedJuly 20, 2012

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