Anthela “acuta”
Caterpillar collected on May 3 2023
Ridgeway
Feeding on Ghania grandis
April 11
The caterpillar was unhappy on the tube stock plant, and would keep climbing off the plant. I kept returning it, and eventually it adopted this position and the next day had shed the skin. I think it would have completed this hidden at the base of the plant if it had the opportunity.
May 18. It had returned to eating its plant quite normally after the change of instar.
June 8. In the days prior it again moved off the plant and was very unsettled and not feeding. Eventually it spun a cocoon in leaf litter.
August 10. Emergence after 63 days of pupation.
