This week I have something a little different for you to try your hand at identifying:
Any ideas what this might be? As usual you can leave your suggestions in the comments section below – have fun!
Zygoma
Adventures in natural history collections
This week I have something a little different for you to try your hand at identifying:
Any ideas what this might be? As usual you can leave your suggestions in the comments section below – have fun!
Zygoma 
A relationship with floppy haired 80’s gits Duran Duran here…it doesn’t belong to Simon Le Bon’s girlfriend or nick Rhodes’s woman, perhaps it belongs to one of Andy, John or Roger’s birds?
Looks a bit large for something an invertebrate might do, so suggests an avian seamstress, to me.
I agree with Palfreyman
Dulce domum for a tasty snack?
I third Palfreyman’s suggestion.
i will jump on palfreyman’s bandwagon, but adding i’m very impressed with the fine stitching shown on the upper leaf flap.
must be on the smaller size of these handy feathered friends.
shoemaker shoemaker, make me a shoe!
There’s a video of the xx building a nest like this. Is it fair to give a link?
Of course it is!
Well, Paolo, here’s the link. It gives it away. Unless I’m dead wrong on this bird, which is always a possibility.
In Costa Rica I saw a bees’ nest (Leafcutting bees, family Megachilidae- from ‘Ask an Entomologist’) constructed under a large growing leaf apparently folded by the bees- admittedly not stitched! But the size is right.