The person who took the photo saw it moving. My best guess is a monkey slug caterpillar:
http://bugguide.net/node/view/253289 Dan Matyola http://www.pentaxphotogallery.com/danieljmatyola On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 9:38 PM, John Celio <[email protected]> wrote: >>> http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=14393173 > > I did about three dozen Google Image Searches, with various combinations of > keywords I gleaned from the image and initial description, but couldn't find > anything even remotely like the thing in the picture. It is one weird little > critter! > > I asked a friend of mine who is rather knowledgeable about insects, > arthropods and plants, and he didn't know either. These were some of his > thoughts: > > - quote - > 1. Is it even an animal? It could be a strange furry fungus, but the > symmetry suggests that might not be the case. > > 2. It could be only a piece of an animal, and I can't recognize it without > the rest of it. > > 3. It could be a strange disguise/camouflage of something more mundane. It's > vaguely spider-like, but I can easily say that it's also trilobite-like. It > doesn't seem to resemble any of the major animal groups that I know. > - unquote- > > If it is an animal, I'm betting it's some sort of arthropod. That's the best > I can do, unfortunately. > > John > > -- > http://www.jacelio.com > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
