Nest in the Treetops  ❧◔_◔❧
Channel: zuditaka
Date: 13/04/2015

What is this amazing nest of some sort up high in the Acacia pendula tree? It seems to have a lot of silken webbing on it--so was it spun by Processionary Bag-shelter Moth caterpillars (Ochrogaster lunifer) or spiders? Or was it all woven by a bird that collected silken web? And if you look, carefully, a large green praying mantis can be seen walking along the top of the nest. It didn't build that thing, did it? It certainly doesn't look like a giant foamy "polyurethane" ootheca affair that mantises (mantes?) make, does it? If you know what it is, this strange nest-of-sorts, then please tell me!

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