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Caterpillar hatchlings from mystery eggs - Gloveria

Caterpillar hatchlings from mystery eggs - Gloveria
New Mexico, USA
September 26, 2015
Found and collected unknown eggs on Sept. 17, 2015 from a cluster that was deposited on the outer stucco wall of a rest area in southern New Mexico. At that time, I set out to try to identify them, and found a picture of the same kind of eggs, also unidentified. (pls click thumbnail)
Eggs were about the size of those tiny Indian "seed beads".
They hatched today! They seem huge for caterpillar hatchlings, bigger than, say, a tomato hornworm hatchling, and you know how big those guys get!

In this place and time of year,
also likely to be Gloveria gargamelle, which uses Apache Plume in this region (? as well as Oak ?).

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Gloveria arizonensis
Good call on that egg cluster - looks exactly like the ones I reared. Full rearing project on my website here: http://lepidoptera.jcmdi.com/m/las/arizonensis/arizonensisr.html

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