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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Hexapods (Hexapoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Silkworm, Sphinx, and Royal Moths (Bombycoidea) » Giant Silkworm and Royal Moths (Saturniidae) » Royal Moths (Ceratocampinae) » Syssphinx » Hubbard's Small Silkmoth - Hodges#7711 (Syssphinx hubbardi)
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Recently hatched larva - Syssphinx hubbardi
Copyright © 2010 cwmelton

Recently hatched larva - Syssphinx hubbardi
Miller Canyon, Huachuca Mountains, Cochise County, Arizona, USA
September 18, 2009
Size: Length 5 mm.
Recently hatched larva and eggshell. After a period of resting following emergence the larva ate much of the eggshell.
A clutch of eggs was obtained from a wild female and reared indoors on mesquite leaves, Prosopis velutina. Photographs that were not positively of the same individual were not linked.
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Contributed by cwmelton on 26 September, 2010 - 12:51am
Last updated 26 September, 2010 - 9:30am

Great sequence of images.
We posted them to the Info page under Life Cycle. We also moved the description into the Title so that information is visible when one hovers over the thumbnail. If you are unhappy with that,let us know and we can change them back. Wonderful work!
… john and jane balaban, 26 September, 2010 - 9:44am login or register to post comments

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
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