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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Noctuoidea » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Cutworm or Dart Moths (Noctuinae) » Noctuini » Yellow Underwings (Noctua) » Large Yellow Underwing - Hodges#11003.1 (Noctua pronuba)
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Pupa ID - Noctua pronuba
Copyright © 2008 Michel Kleinbaum

Pupa ID - Noctua pronuba
Salem, Marion County, Oregon, USA
May 11, 2008
Size: 35mm
found this while turning over ground for planting

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Contributed by Michel Kleinbaum on 11 May, 2008 - 4:05pm
Last updated 31 May, 2008 - 12:09pm

Moved
Moved from pupae and cocoons.
… Eric R. Eaton, 31 May, 2008 - 12:09pm login or register to post comments

It's a moth pupa
and at that size, a pretty big moth, probably one of the sphingidae or saturniidae.
… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 11 May, 2008 - 4:16pm login or register to post comments

 
moth pupa
thank you. I wonder now if I could raise it, but what would I feed it?
Michel Kleinbaum
… Michel Kleinbaum, 11 May, 2008 - 4:33pm login or register to post comments

 
Adults of many big moths don't feed
In any case I'd recommend you just release it when/if it emerges, which might be within a few weeks if it wasn't damaged by being unearthed (I'm guessing adults will emerge in spring, and that this has been in the ground a long while already). That way it will have a chance at reproduction.

Don't rebury it, by the way, just keep it in a clean container. See Tony Thomas' comments on this one I dug up:

… Hannah Nendick-Mason, 11 May, 2008 - 4:53pm login or register to post comments

 
Pupa
On google I found similar looking pupae (Spingidae) with advice on what to do, which is mainly to place it in a bucket lined with paper towels. So I did hoping I did not damage it.
Thanks again
Michel Kleinbaum
… Michel Kleinbaum, 11 May, 2008 - 5:04pm login or register to post comments

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