I live in Rockford, Illinois. I've never seen an insect that looked like this before. I thought it was a dandelion seed blowing in the wind. I caught it on my hand and felt little insect feet crawling on me. It flew off and I caught it again, and noticed it had wings hidden in it's cottony looking body. Does anyone know what this is?
2007-06-01 18:52:55 · 4 answers · asked by kristendw78 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Zoology
I looked at a picture of a white fly and it doesn't look like what I saw.
2007-06-01 21:14:07 · update #1
It also had dark colored legs, and moved more like an insect...not a spider.
2007-06-02 17:55:01 · update #2
Sounds like a cottony aphid.
2007-06-02 00:49:14 · answer #1 · answered by lightening rod 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Very likely a baby spider , leaving the nest by "blooming"
a makeshift parachute from webbing thus transporting the enterprising young spider by the breeze to a new locale he/she can call her /his own.
2007-06-02 08:41:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've never caught one, but White Flies look like tiny cotton poofs when they flit around--could be what it was.
2007-06-01 20:03:49 · answer #3 · answered by Sassy Sue 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very interesting question
2016-08-24 04:23:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋