BIZARRE MYSTERY BUG - DOES IT LOOK LIKE A TROLL? OR SOMETHING MORE BEAUTIFUL?

The Daily Mail writer thinks he looks like a troll.  But to me he looks rather magnificent, with a long iridescent tuft of hair. 

Or he could also look like pieces of two different toys glued together by a playful and creative child.

The 7mm-wide, six-legged bug is thought to be an insect called a nymph

Its elongated golden body is covered in orange dots and stripes

Feelers made of wax protrude from the bug's rear to ward off predators

It was one of sixty new species found in the South American rainforest

See for yourself:  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2509259/Nymph-insect-iridescent-tuft-hair-discovered-South-America.html

What is a nymph? 

- A nymph is an immature insect.
- In insects that undergo a gradual metamorphosis, the stage of the life cycle that hatches from the egg is called the nymph.
- These insects do not pupate like a butterfly.
- Often, the nymph looks like a smaller, wingless version of the adult.
- The nymph may molt several times to reach adulthood.
- Insects that undergo simple or gradual metamorphosis, and have a nymph stage, include grasshoppers and crickets, cockroaches, termites and dragonflies


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