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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

THE WONDER OF NATURE

I came across this where I was living before I got a house. Amazingly, it's the entire body of the insect - similar to a chrysalis from which a butterfly emerges, except this, rather than being a pupa-type object with no real form, is a complete replica of the insect - down to its legs.

Fascinating.


2 comments:

morgetron said...

We have these in Nebraska too. The girls and I went camping last summer and we found lots of them at our camp site and on our hike.

mutters said...

Nature's a wonderful thing, Morg - just astounding. (Despite our best efforts to fuck it up!)