Friday, 6 September 2013

mesmerizing Species

A graduate student found these mesmerizing structures attached to tree trunks in the Peruvian Amazon. He snapped a few images, shared with entomologists worldwide and hoped to find the name of the species responsible for such elaborate picket structure. So far no one has been able to verify what type of creature built it. Some believe it could be a relative of the ribbed-cocoon maker moth, which also builds a protective structure.

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