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Bedivere
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 Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:39 pm |
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Wondering what's going on with this inchworm. Never seen anything like this before.
Parasite(s)? If so, what kind? If not, what the heck is that cluster of little greenish nodes?
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Yana
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Wed Aug 15, 2018 10:49 pm |
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Not an entomologist, but OMG those photos are cool. 
Invertebrates have it pretty rough when it comes to parasites and predators, so I like your guess. One other option is that those are inchworm eggs, but that seems far less likely.
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PLAY SAFE! SKI ONLY IN CLOCKWISE DIRECTION! LET'S ALL HAVE FUN TOGETHER!
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Bedivere
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Bedivere
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Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:10 pm |
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| Yana wrote: | | Not an entomologist, but OMG those photos are cool.
Invertebrates have it pretty rough when it comes to parasites and predators, so I like your guess. One other option is that those are inchworm eggs, but that seems far less likely. |
Thanks Ski!
Eggs don't make any sense. Inchworms are the larval stage of moths, so they hatched from eggs laid by a moth. Doesn't seem too likely a moth laid eggs on the back of one of it's offspring...
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Ski
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Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:17 pm |
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huh?
I was thinking maybe it was a hat he was wearing and he was headed to Burning Man.
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
"I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each."
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Yana
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Wed Aug 15, 2018 11:38 pm |
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| Bedivere wrote: | | Eggs don't make any sense. Inchworms are the larval stage of moths, so they hatched from eggs laid by a moth. Doesn't seem too likely a moth laid eggs on the back of one of it's offspring... |
C'mon, I can just see it... "you wouldn't dare eat your little brothers and sisters, would you? I'll just leave them right here." 
Parasitoid wasps are a terror to many, many invertebrates, including likely larval stages of just about everything, but their eggs are generally not on the outside surface of their host. But if you'd like to have nightmares for the rest of your life, I suggest googling parasitoid wasps and watching some videos.
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Bedivere
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Thu Aug 16, 2018 6:16 pm |
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Thanks Yana & Mike!
That's creepy as hell... 
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Fri Aug 17, 2018 2:38 pm |
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Makes my day to see the white eggs on tent caterpillars.
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Sun Aug 19, 2018 2:39 pm |
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Here's a new field guide coming out that should help with those questions
What’s that bug? New Northwest field guide makes it easy to find out
Washington expert waded bogs, dissected rotting logs and combed fleas from a mountain beaver in his 14-year survey of Northwest insects
| Quote: | | “Insects of the Pacific Northwest” is the first regional field guide that allows amateur bug-watchers to accurately identify a broad range of insects to the species level. It also contains enough detail to be useful to experts. |
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Sun Aug 19, 2018 3:43 pm |
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| Schroder wrote: | | Here's a new field guide coming out that should help with those questions |
Excellent! I once tried to figure out those "annoying horseflies" (per Brushbuffalo's recent TR) that are found wherever there is sufficient terrain above 6000'. I managed to figure out that the genus was most likely Tabanid, but that was as far as I got. Nasty little buggers!
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
Between every two pines is a doorway to the new world. - John Muir
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