Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Fuzzy Bug ... Would like ID, 1 by ceejaytown
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ceejaytown wrote: It's called a trash carrier, and is the larva of the brown lacewing. If you turn it upside down you can see its body. Like Hill sez, it eats other little insects and then places the leftover exoskeleton of its food on its back for camouflage. Here's a photo I took under the sterescope of one upside down. It's mandibles are pointing toward the top, bottom towards the bottom. |