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    Communities > Forums > Insect and Spider Identification
    Forum: Insect and Spider IdentificationReplies: 4, Views: 54
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    felkelf
    Loves Park, IL

    June 21, 2012 7:19 PM

    Post #9175081

    I'm at work so I didn't see this in person but my wife sent me pics of it. She thought it was alive at first but it looks like just the exoskeleton. Is it just a dragonfly skin?

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    felkelf
    Loves Park, IL

    June 21, 2012 7:27 PM

    Post #9175088

    this was the first pic she sent me, I thought it looked pretty cool.

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    kwanjin
    West Valley City, UT (Zone 7a)

    June 21, 2012 10:04 PM

    Post #9175305

    Yes, it's the shed skin.
    Flapdoodle
    Minot, ND

    June 22, 2012 5:31 AM

    Post #9175539

    Shed skin, but not a dragonfly - maybe a stonefly? http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7128/7072114431_2d6bd64d24_z.j...
    flatpickit
    Charleston, SC

    June 22, 2012 10:30 AM

    Post #9175902

    It is indeed a shed skin (exuvia). This one looks like it came from a mayfly and is evidence of its transformation from a nymph to a winged adult or sub-adult.

    http://www.whatsthatbug.com/2011/10/17/exuvia-of-a-mayfly/


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