Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center
This is the pupa of a moth, Sicya crocearia. Note the silk on the leaves, which were wrapped around the pupa before being disturbed for this photograph. This would be a cocoon if the pupa was wrapped in a blanket of silk.
U.S. Department of the Interior |
U.S. Geological Survey
URL: http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/insects/catnw/pht133.htm
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