Insects That Wear Things: Media
Weird and Wonderful Insect Wardrobes
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A bagworm moth larva wearing a case built of silk and artfully arranged twigs.
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A eucalypt leaf skeletonizer caterpillar (Uraba lugens) adorned with a stack...
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A green lacewing larva sporting a pouf of downy plant fibers. Known as “trash bugs”...
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An ant-wearing assassin bug (Acanthaspis species) carrying a mound of ant...
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A spiral of sticks adorning the baglike case of a bagworm moth caterpillar (family...
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A froghopper nymph, known as a spittlebug, sporting a bubbly wrap.
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A tortoise beetle larva brandishing a fecal shield of discarded exoskeletons and...
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A casebearing leaf beetle larva toting a protective case formed of its mother's excrement...
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Masked hunter (Reduvius personatus) nymph wearing dust and lint as camouflage...
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A pair of bone-collecting caterpillars (Hyposmocoma species, yet to be named)...
Rubinoff Lab, Insect Systematics and Biodiversity Lab, Entomology Section, CTAHR, University of Hawaii, Manoa. Reproduced by permission.
A cased caddisfly larva (Potamophylax rotundipennis) rocking a case made...
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