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Io cocoons - Automeris io
Copyright © 2012 Stephen Tapsak

Io cocoons - Automeris io
Columbia County, Pennsylvania, USA
July 30, 2012
Size: 1 1/2 - 2 in.
Io cocoons. This site only has one other picture(and its kind of blurry) of an Io cocoon, so I thought that I should post these to fill the gap. I raised these from cats that I found wandering around. When the cats were full size, I put them in a container of dried leaves. I removed the leaves from the cocoon on the right.

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Contributed by Stephen Tapsak on 30 July, 2012 - 4:46pm

Moved
Moved from ID Request.
Thanks for the addition. Feel free to post directly to the appropriate place in the guide, when you are certain of the ID.
… Charley Eiseman, 30 July, 2012 - 4:57pm

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