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Photo#203323
Copyright © 2008
John Hartgerink
Large Cocoon
Baton Rouge - BREC Bluebonnet Swamp Nature Center, East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, USA
July 15, 2008
Size: 4.4 cm long
See comments under PwrPt #2.
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Contributed by
John Hartgerink
on 18 July, 2008 - 8:26pm
Last updated 5 January, 2013 - 11:02am
Moved
Moved from
Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths
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john and jane balaban
, 25 December, 2008 - 9:45am
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Hey - Anyone thinking what I'm thinking?
Luna moth - Actias luna? (Male)
That, or a Polyphemus.
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Illia-Shaundra Chavez
, 18 July, 2008 - 11:42pm
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I think the pattern is moth antennae
- male? judging by how full they are.
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Hannah Nendick-Mason
, 18 July, 2008 - 9:46pm
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It sure does look like it!
Then I must be wrong about the piece that I thought was the caterpillar head.
Thanks.
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John Hartgerink
, 18 July, 2008 - 9:58pm
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No, you're right - that would be the final instar's shed skin
when it pupates the whole thing peels off, including the head.
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Hannah Nendick-Mason
, 18 July, 2008 - 10:06pm
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Hey, this getting more and more interesting and fun.
If others are correct in thinking that the hole is too small for the moth to get out and it was parasitized by a wasp,
(see comments under the fourth image - the one showing the exit hole.)
then it seems like it happened pretty late in the development of the moth.
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John Hartgerink
, 18 July, 2008 - 10:45pm
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I had an Imperial Moth that was parasitized
The pupa (below) looked perfect, including this kind of external visible anatomy, shortly after pupation, but it had four parasitoid fly larvae inside. I think perhaps these features are visible pretty much at the time it pupates.
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Hannah Nendick-Mason
, 18 July, 2008 - 11:00pm
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