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Well my Elephant Hawk moth has finally hatched and what a visual delight it is,
good God it's a big un (The caterpillars {larvae}, can grow to the length and thickness of a large thumb) I found him/her as a caterpillar back in August/September 2020. It soon developed a hard casing {pupa/chrysalis} in which it underwent the near-magical transformation over winter from caterpillar to moth.
He/she's been sat in a glass biscuit barrel on my office windowsill all that time and I wasn't expecting it to emerge till May, it was just by chance I noticed it hanging from a branch/twig I'd put in the container. As Moths go it's stunning, the pattern, colour and hair is something else. Will let him/her go in a day or two after my Granddaughter has seen it (she's been following its journey) ....
This is what it looked like when I found it ....
Elephant Hawk moth caterpillar 200 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Elephant Hawk moth caterpillar 300 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Then this ....
Elephant Hawk moth chrysalis by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Now this ....
Elephant Hawk Moth 6 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Elephant Hawk moth 300 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Elephant Hawk moth 200 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Elephant Hawk moth 400 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Elephant Hawk moth 500 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
What a metamorphosis .......
good God it's a big un (The caterpillars {larvae}, can grow to the length and thickness of a large thumb) I found him/her as a caterpillar back in August/September 2020. It soon developed a hard casing {pupa/chrysalis} in which it underwent the near-magical transformation over winter from caterpillar to moth.
He/she's been sat in a glass biscuit barrel on my office windowsill all that time and I wasn't expecting it to emerge till May, it was just by chance I noticed it hanging from a branch/twig I'd put in the container. As Moths go it's stunning, the pattern, colour and hair is something else. Will let him/her go in a day or two after my Granddaughter has seen it (she's been following its journey) ....
This is what it looked like when I found it ....
Elephant Hawk moth caterpillar 200 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Elephant Hawk moth caterpillar 300 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Then this ....
Elephant Hawk moth chrysalis by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Now this ....
Elephant Hawk Moth 6 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Elephant Hawk moth 300 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Elephant Hawk moth 200 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Elephant Hawk moth 400 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
Elephant Hawk moth 500 by Tony Mancini, on Flickr
What a metamorphosis .......
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