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ADULTS EMERGING MALE PUPAE SPECIMEN
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Ovum Photos
Showing Development - 15 September 2011
#8 First Instar - 9 A.M., 19 September 2011
#8 First Instar - Beginning construction of a nest - 6:30 P.M., 19 September 2011
#8 Second Instar with old head capsule - 8 October 2011
Hatched 19 September but didn't feed until 2 October 2011
#8 Third Instar
#8 Fourth Instar
#8 Fifth Instar - tail close-up
#4 Fifth Instar head close-up[
#4 Fifth Instar
#4 Fifth Instar
#4 Fifth Instar - walked off plant and stopped feeding 28 October 2011 - 22 mm
#3 Just molted to fourth instar - 15 October 2011
#3 Fourth instar - 16 October 2011
#3 Fourth instar - 16 October 2011
#7 Third instar right after molting
#1 Larva on 4 October 2011 - Set to molt
#1 Larva on 5 October 2011 - After molt to 2nd or third instar.
| PHOTO DETAILS - ©Nicky Davis LOCATION: Jacque Wolfe located a female in City Creek, Salt Lake County, Utah, 8 September 2011 ELEVATION: 5500 feet Oviposited on Reed Canary Grass - Poaceae Phalaris arundinacea , 8th thru 10th of September 2011 Reared on same LIFE HISTORY: Ovum: about nine days Larva: First instar took 8 days to start feeding - fed about 34 days - After 34 days they walked off the plant and stopped feeding but didn't pupate for 7 or 8 days Pupa: about 17 days Adult: Unknown Broods: Unknown Hibernation: Overwinters as Larva Host Plants: Grasses - For photos of host plant used to rear these, click on Reed Canary Grass- Phalaris arundinacea Back to Top |