Life Cycle images of Giant Redeye
Gangara thyrsis Fabricius, 1775
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Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Hesperiidae > Hesperiinae > Aeromachini > Gangara > Gangara thyrsis
Day 0 : Egg of a Giant Redeye
Day 1: A caterpillar coming out of the egg
Day 1: Caterpillar having its first meal. The egg shell.
Day 6 : The caterpillar feeding on palm leaf. Its host plant.
Day 10
Day 18
Cell Construction
An infected Caterpillar
A grown Caterpillar
A pupa. A Giant Red-eye pupates inside a cell that it makes out of the palm / banana leaf. The one shown below fell out of the cell and died later. Do not attempt to open the cell as it may expose them to predators.
This is how the a cell looks like when a pupa is inside.
An Adult nectoring on Hibiscus
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Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Hesperiidae > Hesperiinae > Aeromachini > Gangara > Gangara thyrsis
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Day 1: Caterpillar having its first meal. The egg shell.
Day 6 : The caterpillar feeding on palm leaf. Its host plant.
Day 10
Day 18
The caterpillars of skippers like Giant Red-Eye take much longer than butterflies of other families to pupate.
Cell Construction
An infected Caterpillar
A grown Caterpillar
A pupa. A Giant Red-eye pupates inside a cell that it makes out of the palm / banana leaf. The one shown below fell out of the cell and died later. Do not attempt to open the cell as it may expose them to predators.
This is how the a cell looks like when a pupa is inside.
An Adult nectoring on Hibiscus
