On a young Baldcypress in a still-industrial stretch of Plymouth Street: several of these bag worm cocoons. These are the egg cases of a Psychidae family moth. From a distance they look like cones or some other part of the tree itself. Small twigs are glued onto the surprisingly, or, actually, not so surprisingly, tough cocoon silk. These are, after all, supposed to survive winter, predators, and enraged arborists.
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That’s an excellent find. We had another swallowtail butterfly chrysalis attached to the edge of our back door frame all winter until just last week when one of our carolina wrens was lucky enough to discover it and nabbed herself a large meal. It’s a hard life being stuck in a cocoon/chrysalis and hoping for the best!
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