Re: Snail-eating caterpillar

From another source:

KILLER CATERPILLAR EATS SNAILS ALIVE
from LiveScience

Caterpillars in Hawaii trap snails with silk webs and devour their captive
prey alive, scientists announced today.

Predatory caterpillars are very rare -- only a few other species are known
in the world. Of the 150,000 species of moths and butterflies known
worldwide, only about 200 are predatory.

This newly described species, Hyposmocoma molluscivora, is the only known
moth or butterfly larva to eat shelled animals like snails. The
caterpillars are small -- only about eight millimeters -- and lug their
silk casings from leaf to leaf.
http://tinyurl.com/9fgyj

-jrf
--
Jim Fisher
Vienna, Virginia USA
38.9 N 77.2 W
USDA Zone 7
Max. 105 F [40 C], Min. 5 F [-15 C]

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@hort.net with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE GARDENCHAT
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index