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Monarch Butterfly Webbing

There are two evolutionary hypotheses that I can spin around this web-spinning behavior. One is that this webbing evolved to help hold the chrysalis to a plant surface and later evolved in certain lepidopterans to enclose the chrysalis completely, thus evolving into a cocoon.

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Uploaded on September 20, 2006
Taken on September 19, 2006