Gregarious Larva of Lemyra Tiger Moth Gets Rid of a Neighbour's Poop
Автор: sigma1920HD
Загружено: 2022-01-02
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One of the gregarious early-instar larvae of tiger moth (Lemyra inaequalis inaequalis, family Arctiidae) picked up a black faeces with its mouth and tossed aside it (@0:35) as the hairy caterpillar crawled around a leaf of a young tree of "koshiabura" (Chengiopanax sciadophylloides, family Araliaceae). They seemed to have evolved the hygienic behaviour to keep the host plant clean and attract less natural enemies such as parasitic wasps and hunting wasps by the smell of faeces. Captured in the cloudy midafternoon (around 15:15 PM) of early-October 2021 in Japan.
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