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Pupa - wood white butterfly

Delais aganippe

Description:

These captive bred caterpillars have pupated into a knobby cocoon that somewhat resembles a fresh bird dropping. The second last image is the caterpillar about to undergo its final molt with a shape transformation as it sheds its skin. Finally added the freshly emerged adult male and female (last pic) is drying and stretching her wings

Notes:

metamorphosis sequence. http://www.projectnoah.org/spottings/153...

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1 Comment

MartinL
MartinL 11 years ago

Added two pics of the adults.

MartinL
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MartinL

Victoria, Australia

Spotted on Nov 19, 2012
Submitted on Nov 19, 2012

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