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Thursday, November 25, 2010

one day old Dasypodia caterpillar

To my surprise the eggs from my previous post have already transformed into caterpillars, about 2mm long. They are supposed to eat acacia leaves, some species at least...So, I went to my garden and picked some leaves from in total 6 different species of acacias that I have in my garden. It seems to be a success, they do eat some of them at least, as evidenced by a little hole eaten in the leaf shown in the photo below (click on it to enlarge)...

Saturday, November 20, 2010

one more view of Miss November...

The same moth as in the previous post but showing her frontal view.
And again her eggs (positioned in an array, sort of...) as photographed one day later; one can see that the colour is evolving from green towards brownish red. The eggs are not smooth but rather bumpy or perhaps even a bit "spiky"...? They remind me of seafood, for some reason...