As you may know from my
last caterpillar diary entry, I am looking after a pupa of a butterfly. Last time I wrote that the species was a Small Tortoiseshell, and I did also write that I am not very good at Identifying insect larvae. That couldn’t be more true as today, after buying a new butterfly book, I found out that the caterpillar was not a Small Tortoiseshell but a Large White.
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| A Large White butterfly on a nasturtium! |
This also explains why nasturtiums were the food choice for the caterpillar and it refused the nettles I offered it.
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| not a Small Tortoiseshell but a Large White |
To conclude, it is easy to make mistakes when identifying larvae! Meanwhile, the pupa is still metamorphosing...
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