These are unusual insects, that multiple people have never seen before and don't know a common name for. They are only on 1 kind of tree, and I've just noticed 2 trees of this kind losing leaves due to these creatures. This is in Alabama, USA. What are they? Cosmic Spore attached the following image(s):  IMG_1876.JPG (2,589kb) downloaded 292 time(s). IMG_1902.JPG (2,156kb) downloaded 290 time(s). IMG_1903.JPG (2,308kb) downloaded 289 time(s). IMG_1870.JPG (2,272kb) downloaded 286 time(s). IMG_1877.JPG (2,447kb) downloaded 288 time(s). IMG_1878.JPG (2,429kb) downloaded 284 time(s).
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Looks a lot like Woolly Aphids... PicPlease do not PM tek related questions Reserve the right to change your mind at any given moment.
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Wow, those are incredible! At first glance one might mistake them for a fungus of some sort.
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Couple of caterpillars. Cosmic Spore attached the following image(s): IMG_1924.JPG (2,474kb) downloaded 209 time(s).
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Spider Cosmic Spore attached the following image(s): IMG_1946.JPG (2,060kb) downloaded 204 time(s). IMG_1948.JPG (1,563kb) downloaded 206 time(s). IMG_1949.JPG (1,828kb) downloaded 207 time(s).
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sexy looking spiny orb-weaver. My wind instrument is the bong
CHANGA IN THE BONGA!
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Parshvik Chintan wrote:sexy looking spiny orb-weaver. we have a yellow black and white one here in NZ we call the "bird-poo spider" lol Some alice in wonderland looking caterpillars there too! Those who walk in truth and love grow in honor and strength.
Bright blessings
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spaiders have always scared me, created a fierce physical reaction in me, but as I grow older the fear dissipates, to be replaced by respect. Still don't wanna be close to them, but I don't feel the need to run in terror.
that one is amazing! looks like he's got a Friday the 13th mask on it's back.
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How synchronistic of you to post these pics of fluffy insects....was camping earlier this summer in southern ontario and saw a but just like this flying around my head.."WTF is this a fairy".."like an avatar bug?" lol. REALITY 5.0
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I just found a bunch of these wooly aphids at a nearby nature preserve last week and was like WTF? Thanks for answering that question for me! Coinci-Transcendentalism
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whoa, awesome spiked orb-weaver! I've never seen one like that, just came across a trippy marbled orb-weaver while hiking, you can see it in my thread... nice find! nature truly is wondrous.
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 note amanita muscaria feet. ive seen an all white version too.
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I believe this little critter is called a Saddleback. Supposed to be pretty painful from what I understand. MelCat attached the following image(s): 100_7424c.jpg (508kb) downloaded 104 time(s).Convert a melodic element into a rhythmic element...
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Maybe not so rare, but I when I saw it I was astounded by it's colours Elpo attached the following image(s): 2013-09-13 11.10.34.jpg (3,099kb) downloaded 86 time(s)."It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God." R. Gordon Wasson
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Wow...those caterpillars...! Definitely hadn't seen those before. Nor the wooly aphids. Awesome. Thanks or the awesome gifts people. 
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Here is an odd spiderweb that is really freakin cool..... 112233 attached the following image(s): image.jpg (119kb) downloaded 45 time(s).Fear, belief, love phenomena that determined the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. We cross and recross our old paths like figure skaters; our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
---David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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112233 wrote:Here is an odd spiderweb that is really freakin cool.....
Are you sure it's a spiderweb? I had seen this pic on the web some time ago, but the article then said scientists had no idea what it was... Have they found out in the meantime? "It permits you to see, more clearly than our perishing mortal eye can see, vistas beyond the horizons of this life, to travel backwards and forwards in time, to enter other planes of existence, even (as the Indians say) to know God." R. Gordon Wasson
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No, I'm not sure what kind of web it is, I shouldn't have said spider.........I would like to see what crawls out of that web..... Fear, belief, love phenomena that determined the course of our lives. These forces begin long before we are born and continue after we perish. We cross and recross our old paths like figure skaters; our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others. Past and present. And by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
---David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
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That's awesome. "I am cursed by the blossoming knowledge of my feminine ideal and she looks suspiciously like you."
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid." -AE
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