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Identification history
| Vanessa itea | 24 Nov 2024 | CarbonAI | ||
| Vanessa kershawi | 22 Nov 2024 | MichaelBedingfield | ||
| Unidentified | 20 Nov 2024 | Aussiegall |
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User's notes
Picked a lettuce and this chrysalis was on it so I have put it in a container and will try to keep the lettuce alive until it emerges. It is only small, measured it with a ruler and it is 20mm long and appears to be orange and black, not sure if it is a butterfly or moth?
3 comments
owenh
wrote:
21 Nov 2024
Hi Aussiegall, looks like a mature Vanessa kershawi pupa. Hope you get to see the butterfly emerge.
Aussiegall
wrote:
24 Nov 2024
@MichaelBedingfield It did emerge but unfortunately, I was out when it did and came home to find that it had fallen off the leaf onto the bottom of the container. I carefully popped it back on the leaf in the garden and it unfurled, when I went back to check on it later, it was gone
Sighting information
- 1 Abundance
- 21 Nov 2024 06:20 PM Recorded on
- Aussiegall Recorded by
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Unidentified sightings Insects Nymphs (Nymphalidae) Butterflies (Lepidoptera, Rhopalocera) Aussiegall
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- 12mm to 25mm Animal size
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