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Thursday, July 16, 2009

Life cycle of a moth

I am not at all sure about this but I think this is a lappet or tussock moth. This is the empty shell of the caterpillar.
It built is cocoon amongst the leaves and seems to have a lot of silk strands around it.
After the moth emerges, this is all that is left of it.
For some reason, I was not able to get better pictures of the moth itself but I am sure you can get and idea of what it looks like from these two photographs.
It does have nice colors in it.

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