This beetle larva carries from its back end a "fecal shield" containing feces and molted skins.
Tortoise beetle
Cassidinae
Larva
Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae
Guaruma Trail, Las Mangas, Honduras. 07/03/07
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The fecal shield can be lowered over the body for protection
