Chrysotropia ciliata larva
This is a very interesting larva. Its a lacewing larva but this little guy is apparently voracious. It not only eats other insects it uses body parts and other oddities it finds around as armor! You can see on the right side parts of exoskeletons and near South East Center, what look to be chocolate rice puffs. I would love to know the story of the rice puffs. I found this guy in the middle of some woods.
Chrysotropia ciliata (Wesmael, 1841) is a species of "Green Lacewing" (family Chrysopidae). The scientific name (ciliata) refers to the long hairs set on the costal vein at the front of the wings. The larvae of this species are of the debris carrying kind, a feature shared with a few other genera but the larvae of Ch. ciliata cover (almost) their entire body with debris, whereas the larvae of Pseudomallada for example only cover roughly the rear half.
