View of an Ostrich fern tip and the frond leaves were rolled and folded by the silk into a tight ball shaped cocoon structure

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View of an Ostrich fern tip and the frond leaves were rolled and folded by the silk into a tight ball shaped cocoon structure. This is a life stage of a fern leaftier moth of the Herpetogramma genus

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Size: 5900px × 4000px
Location: Kalutara, Sri Lanka
Photo credit: © Chanuka Karunarathna / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No

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