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Southern Emerald Moth - Hodges#7059 (Synchlora frondaria)
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Copyright © 2011
Robert Lord Zimlich
Southern Emerald Moth - Hodges #7059 -
Synchlora frondaria
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Mobile (Dog River), Mobile County, Alabama, USA
June 20, 2011
Might she be laying an egg? It's not frass, as it's oval & shiny.
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Contributed by
Robert Lord Zimlich
on 21 June, 2011 - 7:35am
Last meal fluid expelled?
Since it looks newly eclosed, perhaps it is the expelled fluid of the last remains of its last meal as a caterpillar. If anyone knows the true term for that, please add!
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Karen Anthonisen Finch
, 1 July, 2011 - 11:00am
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