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bonitin wrote:
I found it yesterday on the floor of my father's veranda and it looked exhausted. One of the cats showed too much interest in it so I brought it to a safe place and later on brought it back home with me.
I had read on Wikipedia that young queens, which I think mine is, it's very huge at least 2 cm, do hibernate in the winter looking for a safe place when the cold weather sets in. I was planning to help it with that, but when I downloaded my pictures I saw something frightening I hadn't seen with the bare eyes. It looks like it has parasites and I wonder what these could be. Perhaps there's something I can do to help it getting rid of ? I think it's so gruesome! For a moment I thought it was getting more lively after I had put it in the sun this midday and I brought it some late Tropaeolum flowers for in case it would need some nectar to gain back its forces, but it didn't show interest.
The parasites are visible in its neck area