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pupa - Aug. 18

pupa - Aug. 18
Cross Plains, Dane County, Wisconsin, USA
August 18, 2011

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caterpillar - Aug. 10 caterpillar - Aug. 10 caterpillar - Aug. 13 caterpillar - Aug. 13 caterpillar - Aug. 17 pupa - Aug. 18

Adult?
Did the pupa hibernate? No luck with the adult? It is so hard when they need to hibernate and you have to wait until next season. More often than not, you lose them. Sigh!

 
No luck
No luck at all with the pupas from last fall:(. So this and the others will have to remain unknown unless someone is able to identify the caterpillar.

 
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Let us not give hope. There is always next year.
Do you keep them outdoors? Do you use soil, paper towels? I keep experimenting.

 
Keep trying...
I kept them in containers with a layer of peat in our garage. I then put them out on our deck in a heavy cooler for a month to see if exposing them to freezing temps would help. I think the main problem was that they dried out in the process as there was not enough moisture in the peat. I had placed a small open jeweler's baggie with water-soaked paper toweling in each container but that did not provide enough moisture. The baggies work well in the summer for keeping the plant materials fresh when the caterpillars are feeding. At least that works.

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