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I said "rather long" but can't remember well. I saw it from the car while driving (very slowly as usual !), so it was not tiny. Maybe 6-7 cm ?

I would go for Lasiocampidae

I think my first guess for the other larva was wrong, not a Tussock

Klipspringer wrote: ↑Wed May 08, 2019 10:56 am And third thoughts: one of the Lasiocampidae

If these guys here got it right, it would be a good match

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/23058238

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Thank you, but is it common in Central Namibia?
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/428283 ... a-salammbo
The map only shows Botswana and Zambia.

And here http://www.africanmoths.com/pages/LASIO ... ammbo.html is Namibia missing, too.

The Silkmoth caterpillars are huge indeed, Lis!

thank you

What a vast family ! Impossible to search through all of them

ExFmem, I know what this is, a very cool find you filed under "unknown" here viewtopic.php?p=399463#p399463

Any ideas and guesses maybe before I tell you?

I have absolutely ZERO idea what it is - the white parts look like wasp larvae in various stages of development

Now climb back outta bed and satisfy my curiousity

Spider eggs?

ExFmem and Richprins

You are both in the right direction.

The best way to solve this is to look carefully.

These are bottles made of different materials, the "cork" is obviously of a different material and structure than the body of the bottle. A bottle is a container you can open easily without braking it. This is the case here as well. What is inside will just push it open in order to leave the bottle and it does not need to have any egg teeth to crack an egg open. If there is a living thing in the bottle there must be some structures to allow gas exchange, that's what you can see on top of the corks.
The bottles are attached to the soil with some glue cement and also stick together. There are some silky thinggies, hence the spider guess is a clever one (but wrong). These may act as traps to catch parasitic predators.

So these are bottle-shaped eggs. Not spiders' nor wasps' though.

Butterflies!