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Orange-barred Sulphur - Phoebis philea - female
Copyright © 2008 Alan Chin Lee

Orange-barred Sulphur - Phoebis philea - Female
Boca Raton, Palm Beach County, Florida, USA
March 1, 2008
Pupa

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Orange-barred Sulphur - Phoebis philea - female Orange-barred Sulphur - Phoebis philea - female Orange-barred Sulphur - Phoebis philea - female
Contributed by Alan Chin Lee on 10 March, 2008 - 7:56pm
Last updated 28 January, 2009 - 5:29pm

Dates?
Are all the dates right? Did you take a picture of the pupa the same day that the butterfly eclosed? If not, will you please change them?
Very nice image. Any idea on the little thing hanging next to the pupa?
… Beatriz Moisset, 15 November, 2008 - 9:07am

 
Looks like
the shed skin of the caterpillar, with the head capsule facing to the right.
… Charley Eiseman, 27 January, 2009 - 10:37pm

 
Hey Charley
Called the Exuvia, the old caterpillar skin and head capsule is suspended by the girdle of silk that would ordinarily hold the pupa upright with the branch or stem.
… Alan Chin Lee, 28 January, 2009 - 5:40pm

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