Sunday, August 22, 2010

Insects are not arachnids and vica versa.

We. Saw. The. Craziest. Bug. Ever. Today. It is actually still undertermined if it was a bug or a spider, all I know is it was so out of this world weird. We were walking in Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, and I looked down and saw... It. It looked like a piece of poplar fuzz blowing across the sidewalk. But no. It was alive.





If anyone has any idea what this bug could be, please tell us. I am going to email a picture of it to someone (no idea who yet) at the University tomorrow. It has blown my mind.

-Kaela

4 comments:

  1. SO weird!! I did some googling and I think it might be the larvea of a Mealybug Destroyer. The adult version looks a little different, but pictures of the larvea look very very similar!

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  2. Buahhh. I had every intention of enthusing over your Blog (which I do), but bleghhjhjgj. Actually, it's mainly kinda cool...!

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  3. OK - that is so weirdly kinda cute and kinda creepy and all sorts of other things.

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  4. Mealybug Destroyer -

    This is a good guy - baby ladybug - it eat other bad pests.

    Nature's pesticide :)

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