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Mummified caterpillar

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Mummified caterpillar
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Science Learning Hub
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This animation shows a caterpillar of the native Aoraia dinodes or Dumbletonius characterifer species of moths ingesting the reproductive spores of Ophiocordyceps robertsii – the vegetable caterpillar fungus. The caterpillar accidentally eats the spores when feeding on leaf litter on the forest floor. The fungus then feeds on the insides of the ...

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Video
Date created
14 April 2009, Updated 8 September 2015
URL
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/videos/1840-mummified-caterpillar
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Science / Education / New Zealand

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