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Woodworm caterpillar

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Sergey Rybalkin, 10.07.2014 18:57

I found a caterpillar of some kossus yesterday. Can Kossus kossus, or Treetreeper Acossus terebra? The question is, where did it go? It seems too early to pupate, I remember once at the end of August in the early 90s I caught a huge caterpillar Kossus kossus, somewhere in the literature I read that oea overwinters and can quite normally overwinter in a dried loaf of white bread. I cut off part of the loaf, dried it, put it in a three-liter jar, and took it out to the balcony, it got into dry bread in September and wintered there, in winter I took the jar from the balcony, and the caterpillar made a pupa. In winter, a huge female odorous woodworm came out.
Who knows where the caterpillar crawled so early, will pupate, or spend the winter?
The caterpillar is approximately 70mm long.

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24.07.2014 18:17, Svyatoslav Knyazev

I found a caterpillar of some kossus yesterday. Can Kossus kossus, or Treetreeper Acossus terebra? The question is, where did it go?

this is cossus cossus, I went to spend the winter.

05.08.2014 21:41, Sergey Rybalkin

this is cossus cossus, I went to spend the winter.


Why was she spending the winter in the middle of summer?

06.08.2014 4:45, Svyatoslav Knyazev

Why was she spending the winter in the middle of summer?

reached the maximum size, that's what I wanted )

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