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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Owlet Moths and kin (Noctuoidea) » Erebidae » Tussock Moths (Lymantriinae) » Orgyiini » Orgyia » White-marked Tussock Moth - Hodges#8316 (Orgyia leucostigma)
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Some kind of cocoon - Orgyia leucostigma
Copyright © 2010 Gnaturally2

Some kind of cocoon - Orgyia leucostigma
Maryland, USA
July 7, 2010
Size: White part is 1/2 inch lo
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Contributed by Gnaturally2 on 9 July, 2010 - 12:56pm
Last updated 12 August, 2010 - 3:31pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… john and jane balaban, 12 August, 2010 - 3:31pm login or register to post comments

Some female Tussocks are wingless or essentially flightless
and mate and lay their eggs right on their cocoons. You may be looking at the eggs of a flightless moth here.

The other possibility is that these are a group of cocoons of some moth parasite. It will be interesting to see what Charley has to say.

Ah! Here's some identified as Orgyia eggs


But look very different from these:
??
… john and jane balaban, 9 July, 2010 - 4:36pm login or register to post comments

 
yes! Those first two match w
yes! Those first two match what I posted. Frothy looking on top of the hairy looking cocoon. Thanks! But I have never seen a wingless Tussock...will have to try to find one out of curiosity!
… Gnaturally2, 9 July, 2010 - 6:03pm login or register to post comments

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