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| Hatched Larvae |
The eggs from the post on 10 July have hatched! There were originally
24 eggs, but we can only count 23 caterpillars. One was still emerging at
the time of the photograph. You can see it hatching if you look midway
up and to the right side of the group. The rest of the larvae have already eaten
the casing of their eggs. They are now huddled under the shade of a cloverleaf.
In order to feed them, we’ve placed grass and clover onto one
side of the cage. Tomorrow we will replace those plants by putting
fresh clippings on the opposite end of the cage. The caterpillars will smell
the fresh food and travel across the cage to the new clippings and then we can
toss the old grass without fearing that we’ve accidentally put the larvae in
the trash.
We have two new species today but they would need to be dissected in order to be identified but, due to our 'catch and release' policy, we may never know. See the pictures below.
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| Resembles the Common Clothes Moth (Tineola bisselliella) - but is not. |
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| A micro-moth in the Coleophora genus |
