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Emerging Entylia carinata - Entylia carinata
Copyright © 2009 Bob Cammarata

Emerging Entylia carinata - Entylia carinata
NCR Trail, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA
September 30, 2009
Size: Less than 1/4"
I found a small group of what I'm pretty sure were Entylia carinata Treehoppers. There were both nymphs and adults present.
I was really fortunate to find this one emerging.

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Emerging Entylia carinata - Entylia carinata Emerging Entylia carinata - Entylia carinata
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Contributed by Bob Cammarata on 3 October, 2009 - 3:23am
Last updated 9 June, 2021 - 9:18pm

Congrats Bob Cammarata, Ridley Scott and Dan O'Bannon
First of all thanks to all for this site - my mystery has been solved and very elegantly I might add.

The image: Mr. Cammarata, You took a great picture of something that may have given Mr. Dan O'Bannon his inspiration:

O'Bannon said in a 2003 interview that he modeled the alien's behavior after the life cycle of parasitic microorganisms.
"One thing I realized hadn't been exploited in science fiction movies were the physical aspects," he told the Star-Ledger of Newark, N.J. "The real world offered many examples which were extremely loathsome and I thought, if it's good enough for Mother Nature, maybe it will work on an audience."
"One review said that watching this movie was like turning over a rock and finding something disgusting. That was a pretty good description of what I was going after..."

See the full obituary article.
… tanitani, 16 July, 2010 - 8:34am login or register to post comments

 
"Alien" Revisited
It's true that these tiny treehoppers bare a remarkable resemblance to the O'Bannon/Scott creation. (In fact, when I posted one of these images last year on a photography website, I actually titled it "Alien Emerging".
A few weeks ago, I was very fortunate to encounter another E.carinata emergent and was able to document the entire transformation from beginning to end.
You can find it at this link.
… Bob Cammarata, 16 July, 2010 - 10:21am login or register to post comments

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… Abigail Parker, 15 October, 2009 - 6:53pm login or register to post comments

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Great shots!!
… Fred Siskind, 3 October, 2009 - 8:43am login or register to post comments

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