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Field Notes

Notes:

This is a puzzling thing. Spotted at Arippa forest near the Training Collage.

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Comments (16)

4 May 2014 This, so called 'bagworm', was last spotted on 25 Jan, 2014. Today I saw 2 of them. They are small but about 1.5 cms, on huge trees. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/286846013
Monday 8 July, 2013 From FB and IBP I received a information. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151345554409159&set=gm.568627003175405&type=1&theater The observer says he saw it on cullenia exarillata trees in KMTR. another observer says this is not a bagorm but it is Tineidae moth.
Thursday 4th July, 2013 My friend and I payed a visit to Arippa forest to collect a few numbers for examination but I could not find even a single one. And I note that it was rainig in Arippa but last year we had little rain.
This puzzled is not yet solved but there is a temporary relief. My friend in IBP solved it, please see the link.:)) http://indiabiodiversity.org/observation/show/323572?pos=1
Thank you CorduneanuVlad, its not bone or that sort because its well placed on tree barks horizontally and vertically. Soon I would be leaving to that forest.
Hi Mark thank you for the link which has similarities and I am planning to visit there to the forest.
Hi Alice, I am sure it doesn't look like a bone but well placed on huge trees on the both sides of the path into the forest. This is from a lowland evergreen forest. I found this object on huge tree barks well placed some vertically and horizontally. Soon I am planing to visit it collect a few samples.
Lerp??? Hey Chief it would be great to have some information here. Size, substrate etc? Have a look at this spotting.... http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/8662878
It does look like an animal sacrum (pelvic bone). It's made from fused posterior vertebrae, as you can usually tell from the bottom (ventral) side. Did you get a view from underneath.
Chief, I think you need to go back to the same trees every week (because I'm sure you have all the time in the world ;) ) to see what's going on and find out what part of who's life-cycle these are. Very cool!
Hi Ava, I have pictures of so many of these on trees, vertically and horizontally. ...so puzzling.
Was there just the one; or is this series pictures of several of these interesting things?

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