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Wildlife Reports => Toronto Wildlife => Topic started by: Brian Bailey on July 13, 2007, 11:14:17 PM

Title: Strange Bug
Post by: Brian Bailey on July 13, 2007, 11:14:17 PM

I found this bug on a window screen this afternoon.  It doesn't look like anything I've ever seen before.

(http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1341/803668193_53bf74e245_o.jpg)

Any ideas?

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Title: wow !!
Post by: Craig McL on July 14, 2007, 06:34:30 AM

I wood amagin it s from the stick bug famaly(Phasmida) (ther are 3,000 species of stick insect in the world) !! But ya I have never seen one like this ?? ther usauly long with out the part at the head ! :shock:

Craig

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Post by: Marnie on July 15, 2007, 10:01:10 AM

That's a plume moth, although I don't know which one in particular.

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Post by: Brian Bailey on July 15, 2007, 10:33:37 AM

Thanks Marnie, you're right!

The moth family was not near the top of my guess list, but that's what it is.  

It's in the family Pterophoridae.  The things sticking out the side of its head are wings.  

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Post by: Marnie on July 15, 2007, 10:47:27 AM

"Moth" doesn't really spring to mind when you see that shape, does it? I learned about these guys last year when I found one in my garden.


(http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i282/marniem/plumemoth.jpg)[/img]