Sac caterpillar | Trujillo, Venezuela.
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Greetings, nature observers of Camping Club Steemit. Today I'm sharing a new insect observation, specifically a caterpillar that's an expert engineer and camouflage specialist.
Close Up .
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| This is the so-called "Sack Caterpillar" (family Psychidae)[1], due to its behavior of constructing a sac with its silk and other materials to find a living sac. It carries and carries this sac while growing as a caterpillar and then serves as a cocoon in its chrysalis phase before transforming into a butterfly. I didn't know its name; I got it thanks to Google Lens, but I'm not sure about its common or scientific name. |
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Habitat and behavior.
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| I decided to photograph them because I found two of these specimens among the lilies in the garden, one of them, the larger one, stuck to the underside of a lily leaf, and the other attached to an iron post. Both with completely different sacs. The first one collected dry sticks and leaves, the second covered herself with the lichens she found on the post. The sac is about two centimeters long, and the photos suggest the caterpillar inside must be between 1 and 1.5 centimeters long. According to Wikipedia, most of these caterpillars generally do not cause damage to plants; instead, some feed on "Wax mealybug." [3] |
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Note: After the photo shoot, the caterpillar was returned alive to the garden plant where it was found. |
Classification
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| I decided to take the one on the post to my photo studio. There, I waited for it to emerge and captured it on video, dragging its home or suit, the latter made almost entirely of gray and greenish lichens growing on the metal. Here we can see these two builders, one with her forest basket and the other with her lichen cape. And the classification, taken from Wikipedia . Phylum: Arthropoda Class: Insecta Order: Lepidoptera Family: Psychidae Genus: Psyche Species: unknown Sources: See [1] y [2] |
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| Equipment: | Umidigi Cell Phone A7S Camera |
| Mode: | Macro Mode. Layer: 3:4 |
| Author: | @joslud |
| Edition: | Lightroom |
| Location: | Outdoor + indoor |
| Date: | Wed, Oct/04/ 25 |
| In Inaturalist.org | Coordenadas: 9.15261, -70.6942666667 orden Lepidoptera by @joslud |
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Sources
Images
- Images and screenshots are my property. Taken with my UMIDIGI phone. Also based on screenshots on Steemit.
- [1] Psychidae in Wikipedia
- [2] Psyche casta in Wikipedia
 Original production by @joslud |
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Espectacular. Cuán bella y particular es cada especie animal. Disfruté mucho este post.
Wonderful things from nature. Living in a sac as an a caterpillar and leaving the sac behind as an adult butterfly.
I am reading about this Sack Caterpillar for the first time.
Thank you @joslud.
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