What the heck is it...

Found on a stinkbug that had been caught and eaten by a spider. It was growing or sitting on the edge of the thorax, and it was about 1 mm tall. Fungus? Dried exudate from inside the bug? Spider poop? I should mention that these growths were only on one of the six or seven dead stinkbugs in or beneath the spider's web.

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