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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths and caterpillars covered by fungus
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parasitized or chrysalis?
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parasitized or chrysalis?
Mt. Weather, Clarke County, Virginia, USA
April 16, 2018
This organism was hanging from the twig of a young tree. It was covered with white and yellow spikes. Looking at the back of it, it resembled a large (possibly winged?) beetle but it could also have been a chrysalis/cocoon? Found in Appalachian woodland/mountains N. Virginia.

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parasitized or chrysalis? parasitized or chrysalis? parasitized or chrysalis?
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Contributed by upat5 on 16 April, 2018 - 12:02pm
Last updated 16 April, 2018 - 2:28pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
… Bob Biagi, 16 April, 2018 - 2:28pm login or register to post comments

moth infected with a fungus
more examples here https://bugguide.net/node/view/230781 (scroll down to moths)
… metrioptera, 16 April, 2018 - 12:36pm login or register to post comments

 
Thank-you....
To my untrained eye, it most closely resembled this:

https://bugguide.net/node/view/1502305

I tried to google it but could find very little....was the insect already dead when the fungus grew on it or did the fungus kill it? Is there a link the the life cycle of this fungus?
… upat5, 16 April, 2018 - 3:07pm login or register to post comments

 
Yes
They looks very similar. This pathogen most likely kills them.
The article linked above has some links in it.
… Bob Biagi, 16 April, 2018 - 3:19pm login or register to post comments

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