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Octotoma In April - Octotoma plicatula
Copyright © 2011 Jon Hart

Octotoma In April - Octotoma plicatula
Montrose, Laurens County, Georgia, USA
April 18, 2011
Size: approx. 5 mm
Found on creeper leaf.

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Octotoma In April - Octotoma plicatula Octotoma In April - Octotoma plicatula
Contributed by Jon Hart on 25 April, 2011 - 7:38pm

"Bird dropping" adult!
The similarity is pretty good, especially in this pose. I had never noticed this with this genus before. It's not unusual for cassidines and other Chrysomelidae to cover themselves in their own excrement but here is an adult doing a passing job of faking it.
… Jim McClarin, 26 April, 2011 - 6:59am

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