Broad bordered Grass Yellow life history
Posted 03-14-2009 at 01:25 PM by AfricanButterflies
Hi All
I managed to get almost all the life history of this lovely little insect on record over the past few weeks...
Egg (hugely magnified; it's about 1.5mm long)

First instar larva about to moult (about 4mm long):

Second instar:

Fourth instar:

Pupa:

And the resulting male adult (he would not open his beautiful chrome-yellow wings, sadly):

I managed to get almost all the life history of this lovely little insect on record over the past few weeks...
Egg (hugely magnified; it's about 1.5mm long)

First instar larva about to moult (about 4mm long):

Second instar:

Fourth instar:

Pupa:

And the resulting male adult (he would not open his beautiful chrome-yellow wings, sadly):

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