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Colin’s coloured up

23 Wednesday Feb 2022

Posted by sconzani in insects

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Angle shades, Angle shades larva, Angle shades moth, Angle shades pupa, British moths, moth pupa

Don’t worry – I won’t be posting too many updates on Colin the caterpillar, now chrysalis. I just thought it was interesting to see how quickly he has changed from looking like a caterpillar to looking like a moth-in-the-making. During Monday morning, after he’d just pupated, he squirmed around a lot, sometimes quite violently. By the end of the day, he had turned a wonderful golden brown colour and showed definite structural signs of the moth he will become, a process that will apparently take between two and three weeks.

220223 Colin in colour

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Colin the chrysalis

21 Monday Feb 2022

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Angle shades caterpillar, Angle shades moth, Angle shades pupa, British moths, moth chrysalis, moth pupa

For various reasons (illness – mine, not his, and this run of stormy weather) I was not able to return Colin the caterpillar to the area where I think he must have been living before he hitched a ride home with me. So, I’ve been keeping him in a jar on my desk, where he’s munched happily on a diet of cabbage and Alexanders leaves. For the past 24 hours, I’ve been a bit worried as he’d stopped eating but this morning I discovered why – he’s pupated!

220221 colin the chrysalis

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