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MYSTERY CRITTER

PUT THIS PIC IN MOTHS WITH NO RESPONSE SO MAYBE NOT A MOTH? tHIS COCOON ON ROSE BAY IS FULL OF EGGS, OF WHAT?
NO ONE ON ANY BLOG ANYWHERE SEEMS TO KNOW WHAT THIS IS.

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Filename:bug_3_~0.jpg
Album name:Colin Smale / All other Wildlife in Lincolnshire
Keywords:COCOON. / CHRYSALIS. / INSECT. / MOTH. / BUTTERFLY.???
Date and Lincs Location::AUG DONNA NOOK
Filesize:84 KiB
Date added:Aug 09, 2010
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David Morison   [Aug 09, 2010 at 02:08 PM]
Colin, have you tried "Bug Forum"?
Colin Smale   [Aug 09, 2010 at 03:36 PM]
Thanx David, I have now posted pic on it.
Colin Smale   [Aug 09, 2010 at 09:44 PM]
UPDATE, larvae hatching and heading for the ground via thread, no wonder they don't eat the host's leaves. Still no idea what they are.
Colin Smale   [Aug 10, 2010 at 05:11 PM]
Not even a response from bug forum.
Colin Smale   [Aug 20, 2010 at 02:36 PM]
Bug forum feel this is a brown tail moth, this is latest response. Well its not a chrysalis, though I agree it does look like it aught to be. The female moth makes a kind of hairy pouch with her irritant tail hairs to protect her eggs. The texts tell me that she can lay up to 300 or so across many batches, but they are not that hairy and would soon run out. As this is a particularly hirsute batch I can only imagine it was her first an that she decided to make it particularly hairy - putting all her hairs in one basket so to speak.
David Morison   [Aug 22, 2010 at 10:27 PM]
Colin, another even better forum for moth ID is "Back Garden Moths Community" David

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