LYMANTRIIDAE: Orgyia anartoides (Painted Apple Moth)
Workbook
Life History studies: raising caterpillars
Collected at home in the vegetable garden on 9/2/19. A second, much larger one was collected a few days later.
The following day I collected a much larger, but otherwise identical, individual. It is the larger one that began to pupate on 14/2/19 (photos below)
14/2/19 - spun cocoon against edge of jar
14/2/19
16/2/19
16/2/19
eclosed on 24/2/19 - flightless female, laid many eggs
REFERENCES
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Kerri-Lee Harris