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Field Notes
Description:
Yellow caterpillar with purple patches over black spiracles. Small orange head and a pair of white lines extending across back.
White and green striped moth with a yellow abdomen.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliothis_virescens
Habitat:
Found on a Cape Gooseberry plant in our family's garden. It was mainly eating the berries but also some of the calyx.
Notes:
I moved it to a jar with some gooseberry branches for food along with the other caterpillar I found on the plant.
A few days later it moved onto the pupal stage.
On Aug. 11th it still remains in the pupal stage.
On Aug. 23rd, the pupa emerged as a green and white striped moth.
Pics taken on Aug. 23rd.
Species ID Suggestions
1
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedAugust 12, 2012
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