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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Beetles (Coleoptera) » Polyphaga » Series Cucujiformia » Curculionoidea » Snout and Bark Beetles (Curculionidae) » Hyperinae » Hypera » Hypera rumicis
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What made this, please? - Hypera rumicis
Copyright © 2007 Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City

What made this, please? - Hypera rumicis
Herring Run Park, Baltimore City County, Maryland, USA
May 22, 2007
Reminds me of a type of candy I've seen somewhere. Perhaps I'm imagining things.

[Don't worry I didn't taste it!]
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Contributed by Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City on 23 May, 2007 - 6:11am
Last updated 24 January, 2009 - 4:46pm

Moved
Moved from Hypera.
… Charley Eiseman, 10 January, 2009 - 6:30pm login or register to post comments

typical cocoon of
. . . Hypera weevil. Probably (if I look at the leaf) H.rumicis you posted recently.
… Boris Büche, 24 May, 2007 - 5:13am login or register to post comments

Candy
I have no idea what the bug is, but there is a technique used to decorate desserts in which caramel is drizzled in a buttered bowl, allowed to cool and harden, and the bowl is removed, leaving a golden lattice-work dome of sugar which strongly resembles this cocoon.
… Cliff Bernzweig, 23 May, 2007 - 12:28pm login or register to post comments

 
OMG
YES, that! Haha, I have no idea where I recall seeing that candy as a child, several years ago.

[Thanks, Cliff!]
… Thomas Wilson of Armistead Gardens in Baltimore City, 23 May, 2007 - 12:49pm login or register to post comments

 
Similar to this one but diffe
Similar to this one but different color on the larva inside >>
… bnuts40, 26 May, 2007 - 7:17am login or register to post comments

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