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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Tubeworm, Bagworm, and Clothes Moths (Tineoidea) » Bagworm Moths (Psychidae) » Psychinae » Psyche » Common Bagworm Moth - Hodges#0437 (Psyche casta)
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Unidentified - Psyche casta
Copyright © 2008 John F. Carr

Unidentified - Psyche casta
Newton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts, USA
June 6, 2008
Pending identification I will refer to this as the Trojan Grasshopper.

A wooden structure about 1cm long with the general form of a small grasshopper was crawling up a post. (Picture to follow.) It turned out to have this inside.

The visible portion of this creature is about 2mm long.

Edit: Identified elsewhere as some sort of bagworm.

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Unidentified - Psyche casta Shell - Psyche casta
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Contributed by John F. Carr on 6 June, 2008 - 5:54pm
Last updated 10 February, 2009 - 10:53pm

Moved
Moved from Psychinae.
… Charley Eiseman, 10 February, 2009 - 10:53pm login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from Bagworm Moths.
… John F. Carr, 5 February, 2009 - 6:19pm login or register to post comments

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