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LARVAE
First instar on marigold petal
egg oviposited 20 September
larva hatched 24 September 2010
Two day old first instar - Hatched 26 September, photo 28 September 2010
Second Instar - Hatched 24th, molted to second instar on 28 September 2010
Second Instar - Hatched 26 September
molted to 2nd I.S. 4:27 P.M. on 30 September 2010 - Shows discarded skin
Third instar - Set to molt to Fourth Instar
Fourth Instar
Just molted to Fifth Instar
Photo on 8 October 2010
Fifth Instar
9 October 2010
Fifth Instar
9 October 2010
Fifth Instar
About 17 mm long
13 October, 2010
Pre-pupa is silked to a stem to pupate
14 October 2010
PUPAE
| #2 Female Pupa - 15 October
2010 7:48 A.M. |
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#2 Female Pupa - 22
October 2010
10:22 A.M. - 1 hour 16 minutes before butterfly eclosed |
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#6 Male Pupa
25 October 2010 - 9:11 A.M. |
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#6 Male Pupa 25 October 2010 - 3:35 P.M. Forty-five minutes before adult emerged |
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Details - ©Nicky Davis Todd Stout located female on 14 September 2010 by the Verde River, Cottonwood City, Yavapai County, Arizona, elevation of 3300 feet Reared and photographed by Nicky Davis. Ova 4 days The female oviposited on host plant, Thymophylla pentachaeta/Dyssodia pentachaeta - Fetid Marigold/ Five-needle Prickly-leaf, and on the screen of the container which was set under the dappled sunlight of an Aspen. Larva 19-22 days Pupa 7 days - One pupa was formed on a flower stem and one on a calyx. I put recycled brown paper towel strips on some flowers. Some of the larvae used the paper as the surface to form pupae. The pupae were kept in 24x7 light. I did not mist these daily because Jack Harry told me that members of the sub-family Coliadinae preferred a somewhat dry environment in the lab. Host Plants
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