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[Closed] Can anyone identify this???

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saw this strange looking bug on my fence today, I know the photo is pretty poor but it was kind of like a large transparent woodlouse surrounded by loads of very neatly laid white eggs

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I'm sure it's nothing too exotic as it was just on my fence but I would be interested to find out what it is!

ps don't think the cobwebs are related to it!


 
Posted : 27/07/2010 10:36 pm
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Is it a Baby Robin?


 
Posted : 27/07/2010 10:48 pm
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Albino woodlouse with OCD?


 
Posted : 27/07/2010 10:49 pm
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Brain eating louse.


 
Posted : 28/07/2010 12:04 am
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So the answer to my original question would be appear to be 'no' then it would seem. Very poor STW...


 
Posted : 29/07/2010 5:42 pm
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dont worry they dont grow very big
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Posted : 29/07/2010 5:52 pm
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Is there a large spaceship crashed in your garden?


 
Posted : 29/07/2010 5:53 pm
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It is a Large Transparent Woodlouse.


 
Posted : 29/07/2010 5:54 pm
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Well I do know its gross! Pressure washer time? ok I know its cruel but its gross.


 
Posted : 29/07/2010 6:00 pm
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BigDummy is correct, and where you have woodlouse you'll find...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dysderidae

be afraid, be very afraid (imagine a flea bite thats about 3in in diameter and itches like hell! had that experience about eight times now!)


 
Posted : 29/07/2010 6:16 pm
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Take off and nuke it from orbit - its the only way to be sure.


 
Posted : 29/07/2010 7:48 pm
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Female Vapourer Moth

http://www.plantpress.com/wildlife/o316-vapourermoth.php


 
Posted : 29/07/2010 7:57 pm
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Dave - it would seem you know your wildlife! That's definitely it, don't think I can pressure wash a harmless mother-to-be moth, think i'll just leave it to do whatever it is that it does. 8)

Cheers guys


 
Posted : 29/07/2010 9:09 pm
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sofaking what the 'ell is that? It's quite scary!


 
Posted : 29/07/2010 11:14 pm