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Salamander
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Central Ohio
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Seems like every year one of my caterpillars escapes in the fall and emerges in the winter as a moth. This is this year's escapee: female polyphemus
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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When they escape...Do they end up forming a chrysalis-pupa in an unknown spot in your home or..... do you find them, yet leave them because they might get bruised or killed moving them elsewhere?
Are chrysalis-pupa one in the same or are they considered different phases?
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Salamander
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Central Ohio
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They make a cocoon somewhere. Sometimes I find them but I believe it has always been after the moth has eclosed. Polys are the main culprit with lunas being a distant second.
When I'm cleaning out an aquarium, I put some fresh leaves in the lid and then put the caterpillars on the leaves. The caterpillars are not there very long and I try grab all the ones that aren't interested in the food but one a year usually escapes. Pupa is the generic term for the third stage of complete metamorphosis. Chrysalis is specific to the pupal stage of Lepidoptera with most people making it specific to butterflies. I've been taught that chrysalis is "something golden" in Greek. YMMV You can actually get more specific about "pupa." There is "pupa libera." An example people are familiar with are the white bees/wasps you see in broken nests. You can see the appendages but you know it is not a full fledged bee/wasp yet. And there is "pupal obtecta." This is when the pupal form is protected within a shell that the insect produced itself (worker bee made the shell protecting the bee pupa). |
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Alternate POM Judge
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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beautiful moth. Thank you for your photo KC Clark
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WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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Pupa would be interchangeable with Chrysalis then with
Chrysalis being the term that should be used if the insect falls under the Lepidoptera (Moth-butterfly family) Cool! Thank you for mentioning a couple other forms and names of pupa KC ![]() pupa libera https://www.google.com/search?q=pupa...w=1164&bih=826 pupa obtecta https://www.google.com/search?q=pupa...g&ved=0CCAQsAQ Moth has eclosed....Meaning left its case? I know what a luna is but what's a poly?
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