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Parasitized caterpillars
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Field Notes
Description:
Empty caterpillar skins fixed in weirdly contorted positions on a twig of eucalyptus. Skins seem mostly complete with most hairs still in place.They might have been hollowed out by a parasitic arthropod like a wasp or fly larva or maybe a fungi like cordyceps. Victims were about 15mm long.
Habitat:
On a sapling in a local nature reserve.
Notes:
Yet to search for similar... or work out exactly what's going on. Could be multiple vectors?
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Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedMarch 7, 2014
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