Lucas Bustamante / Brush footed butterfly (Lycorea sp.) caterpillar with parasitic wasp cocoons on silk threads, Yasuni National Park, Orellana, Ecuador.
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Alex Hyde / Silk moth (Saturniidae) cocoon, used in textile production, photographed on a white background. Maroantsetra, Northeast Madagascar.
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Nick Upton / Silken cocoon of Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet moth (Zygaena lonicerae) attached to grass stem, chalk grassland meadow, Wiltshire, UK, May.
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Nick Upton / Basket cocoon parasitoid (Meteorus sp.) cocoon hanging from a grass stem in boggy heathland, Studland, Dorset, UK, July.
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Paul Bertner / Braconid Wasp (Braconidae) cocoons attached to parasitized caterpillar, Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Tanzania
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Ingo Arndt / Saturniid moth caterpillar {Hylesia continua} covered with cocoons of parasite. Costa Rica, Central America
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Lorraine Bennery / Nursery web spider (Pisaura mirabilis) female with egg cocoon, Fontainebleau forest, France, July.
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Stephen Dalton / Black ants (Lasius niger) and cocoons at nest, Sussex, UK
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Gerrit Vyn / Bristle-thighed curlew (Numenius tahitiensis) on coastal tundra feeding on woolly bear caterpillar pupa. The curlew locates the cocoons by sight and shakes them until the pupa fall out.. Yukon Delta N...
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Pete Oxford / Silkworm cocoons (Bombyx mori), Sohra Market, Cherrapunji. Meghalaya, North East India, October 2014.
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John Waters / Tree bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) crawling over silk nest produced by wax moths (Galleriinae) in an old bird's nest, garden hedge, Somerset, UK, August.
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John Waters / Tree bumblebee (Bombus hypnorum) crawling over silk nest produced by wax moths (Galleriinae) in an old bird's nest, garden hedge, Somerset, UK, August.
