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The Parent Bug: Grown up

The family is a safe place, as long as we are green bugs... ... but soon, we'll be brown bugs!
There is a single moulted young adult in this family. The empty larval skin is visible at the bottom of the picture. After a while more larvae moult for the last  time but still they seek the shelter of the group. Quite often, sisters and brothers happen to mate. But once they discover how to fly, there is no way back to the family.
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Photograph by José Verkest, Text by Maria Pfeifer