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Limnaecia phragmitella - young caterpillar
Plucked this tiny caterpillar (inset bottom left is on a tooth pick) from the seedhead ("sausage") of some Reedmace (Typha) while looking for the little ground bugs (Chilacis typhae) living in it. Put it on a leaf for some photos and then on a different sausage for better background, but then it dug back into the seedhead and was gone within twenty seconds :o)
The shy cosmet moth is a moth of the Cosmopterigidae family. It is known from all of Europe, as well as Asia, Australia and New Zealand. It is also present in North America, where it is distributed from Nova Scotia to Virginia, west to Oklahoma and north to Ontario. The habitat consists of fens and marshes.
Similar species: Moths And Butterflies
