Very strange bug!!!

Ok this is a crappy photo and doesn't look like much but it was moving and scurrying around. Its very small and I was unsure where to get focus on it. If I touch it it falls to the ground, if I move the leaf or breathe on it it freezes.

WHAT IS IT??? This is not a trick question as I have no idea. Also there is a thing above its head that it moves around like a lure of sorts. PS this is the underside of this leaf.

Is it a larvae for some bug? From the pic, I can't tell. I'm assuming an egg was laid and has hatched.

Phillydog1958 said:

Is it a larvae for some bug? From the pic, I can't tell. I'm assuming an egg was laid and has hatched.

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What you are seeing is the entire bug. There are a few of them and I am still to work out where the head is...

Scott Murray said:

What you are seeing is the entire bug. There are a few of them and I am still to work out where the head is...

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Hmmm . . . You guys have some very interesting creatures in Australia. You have more marsupials than any other continent. I often watch wildlife shows about Australia, and I'm amazed at how many poisonous snakes are there. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Australia has the highest amount of species of poisonous snakes, when compared to any other place in the world.

But, this is probably some common creature that we all are aware of. On the other hand, it might be something rare.

Great post!

Here is another that is not covered in white crap. I think the eyes are at the edge of the leaf.

Thats a pretty weird looking .. little guy. Looks so messy. I wouldnt have thought it was alive, if you havent written it.

wud said:

Thats a pretty weird looking .. little guy. Looks so messy. I wouldnt have thought it was alive, if you havent written it.

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Yes unless I didn't see it moving I would not have thought it alive either. Might try and get a video of one moving.

I've seen bagworms. They are often in a cacoon-like bag. The entire bag moves, but the creature is inside . . . This reminds me of that.

As a kid, when visiting my grandparents who lived in the country, there were numerous white cottony things attached to leaves. My grandmother said some type of bug (spyder, etc) laid their eggs which were encased in the white cottony stuff. The white stuff might be holding whatever was born inside it, and perhaps it is emerging from its egg.

Bagworms link. I tried to post a pick. Check out the link:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?_adv_prop=image&fr=yfp-t-122&va=bagworms

Phillydog1958 said:

I've seen bagworms. They are often in a cacoon-like bag. The entire bag moves, but the creature is inside . . . This reminds me of that.

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Yikes. Now you got me googleling, lol.

Just set up a timelapse of it

I just viewed my 25min time lapse and the thing has barely moved in that time, there is one movement which can be clearly seen but gee 1 movement in that time? Maybe I should increase it but I can't leave my camera out alone.

Here is my quick edit and video. (Not the timelapse)

I have identified the bug....

It is a Green Lacewing Larvae - Chrysopidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

So it is!