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Caterpillar suspended in mid-air

Published on May 23, 2009 in Attila Bakti, Ile de France and Lepidoptera.

This caterpillar was part of a colony of some 20 or so individuals enclosed in silk threads. On being disturbed it threw itself out on a invisible silken thread and hung suspended in the air.

See : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_caterpillars

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