Monday 17 July 2017

Life Cycle images of Giant Redeye

Life Cycle images of Giant Redeye

Gangara thyrsis Fabricius, 1775

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangara_thyrsis

Lepidoptera > Papilionoidea > Hesperiidae > Hesperiinae > Aeromachini > Gangara > Gangara thyrsis

Day 0 : Egg of a Giant Redeye

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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


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




The observations are made during Nov / Dec - 2016 from South India.

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