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Cloudless Sulphur Caterpillar This Cloudless Sulphur caterpillar was pretty much ready to go into chrysalis when I found it, but it emerged successfully as you can see below. |
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Cloudless Sulphur Chrysalis After eating for couple of days, she crawled up the colander covering her "home" and made a chrysalis. |
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Newly Eclosed Female Cloudless Sulphur After about two and a half weeks, she emerged! Here she is still clinging to the empty chrysalis while her wings dry. Below are two more pictures. The one on the right was taken just seconds before she flew away. |
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Tiny Sleepy Orange Caterpillar This little caterpillar is only about 1/2 inch long in this picture. |
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Older Sleepy Orange Caterpillar These are about a week later, it is now more than an inch long. |
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The Chrysalis It went into chrysalis not long after the previous pictures. |
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Newly Eclosed Sleepy Orange It came out of chrysalis on a chilly fall day. I put it out late in the afternoon on some white lantana which the Sleepy Oranges love. When I checked on it the next morning, it was still in the same place. I thought it was dead. I picked it up and was deciding how best to open it to take a picture of the inside of the wings, when after a minute or so the warmth from my hand revived it! I put it on some flowers in the sun, and saw it flying around later in the day. The inside wing color was an intense vivid orange, similar to the color of traffic cones. I wish I could have gotten a picture. |
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| I found this buckeye caterpillar on my diascia, which is a cousin of the snapdragon. The picture on the left is what it looked like when I found it. In the two on the right, it has gone to the next instar. |
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Buckeye Cat in a J This is the same Buckeye cat after it has gone into its "J" shape before becoming a chrysalis. |
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Buckeye Chrysalis Here is the chrysalis. |
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The New Buckeye Here it is after eclosing |
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Gulf Fritillary Caterpillars These little guys all came on the Passiflora incarnata I got at Meadowbrook Nursery (formerly We-Du). The two larger ones (bottom right two) I moved onto the plant from the roadside plants that were severely eaten. The smaller two (left and bottom left) were a bonus. |
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Variegated Fritillary I found 5 of these on my pansies in late fall. I brought them and their pansies in on the screen porch, but once the weather got too cold they all died. |
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Variegated Fritillary This is not a great picture, except for the lovely side view of the bristles. |
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| This little Eastern Tent Caterpillar (Malacosoma americana) was trucking full speed across the pine straw when I saw it. They can really move! Their tents are ugly, but they don't do much damage and they are food for Blue Jays, Yellow-Billed Cuckoos, and Black-Billed Cuckoos, so I just ignore them. |
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Xylophanes Tersa Caterpillar I found this guy eating Poor Joe Weed in my yard. I brought it in to try to help it reach adulthood, but unfortunately I was too late. It ate for a few days, then burrowed down into the "ground" I had supplied, but it had been parasitized by flies. Below are pictures of the Poor Joe (Diodia teres). |
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