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Injured caterpillar

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Славл, 10.07.2008 18:52

I once picked up a hawk moth caterpillar on a busy city avenue-lime trees are encased in paving stones and asphalt sidewalks, the poor animal has absolutely nowhere to burrow into the ground. The rear part of the caterpillar was damaged, which gradually darkened, and then, after a few days, darkened completely-apparently rotted alive (.

It was last year, and today I got another injured, as it turned out, caterpillar of the same linden hawk moth. It was noticed by the desperate attempts to throw off the ants that were straddling it. This one has an injured head, but the caterpillar is active, "kicking".
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Do caterpillars survive after injuries, and do they have a chance to pupate, naturally, when it is a mature individual?

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10.07.2008 19:53, Дзанат

There's no chance. She's sick, maybe with a fungus...

10.07.2008 20:00, Славл

Dzanat, the damage seems to be of mechanical origin...

10.07.2008 20:07, Дзанат

  Dzanat, the damage seems to be of mechanical origin...

smile.gif Okay, I was just guessing... smile.gif I think the ants needed it more.
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10.07.2008 20:18, Zhuk

they don't survive. I've done this a bunch of times before. Even if the caterpillar pupates, the pupa will then die.
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10.07.2008 23:24, Swansson

they don't survive. I've done this a bunch of times before. Even if the caterpillar pupates, the pupa will then die.


Sometimes they survive. I once successfully bred a milkweed hawk moth from a caterpillar with a damaged horn.

10.07.2008 23:45, Zhuk

I once had such a caterpillar shed (like some kind of shovel) and it turned out something like half a pupa and half a formed butterfly smile.gifwell, of course it died....

13.07.2008 18:56, Raptor

It's a pity, of course.I know that if the caterpillar has a relatively small tear or cut on its body, then it can lick it somehow,and it will overgrow.A couple of times I had to give them artificial respiration,and both with a positive result!I mean, I pulled the eagle out of the water,after ??? time.

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