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BottleCat 2021-07

The eggs were laid on Citrus. There were at least 5 batches of eggs found throughout the month. Somehow I never saw the caterpillars eat anything, but two of them managed to grow considerably, though only one survived in the end.

The last caterpillar has been seen nesting around decaying leaves, the corner of the container, and in the last few days, between two leaves. It mysteriously disappeared before the morning of the 20th day.

Egg: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/68099991
Caterpillar: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/69400222

Observation set: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations?verifiable=any&place_id=any&field:Similar%20observation%20set=68099991

Info: BottleCats is the tag I use to track the ontogeny of lepidopterans in my backyard. Though bottled, I consider wild-caught caterpillars that naturally live and breed within our garden walls to be "wild," in terms of iNat labelling.

Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1AQUtjdS8-zRBCuTwiImymzYRcZrxHQXP-O51H9zl3PA/edit#gid=1116492635

See the images I took daily of this batch:
http://bottlecats.tumblr.com/tagged/202107