Photo #23251: Pieris brassicae

05.12.2013 18:04, Vasiliy Feoktistov Corrected data.

Not identified → Pieris brassicae / Confidently identified / Irina Nikulina.

05.12.2013 16:44, Yuri Semejkin

Vasily, thanks! I checked the link and other sources on the web. Summary. Nearly 100% sure this is P. brassicae. If compare with the web, there are some slight distinctions, can be just larvae age. Also they could have to do with uncertainty if there would be male or female after pupation. Should be checked biologically, documenting with shots, everything will be cleared up.
Pity no one prompted Pieris brassicae in the summer, maybe that was Ipomoea confusing...
So I think this could be moved to Pieris brassicae.

05.12.2013 13:00, Vasiliy Feoktistov

UPD As I see, that's it, no thoughts of anything different?

05.12.2013 12:57, Vasiliy Feoktistov

Yury, this pic seems left from the previous website when there was no enlarge option, there are lots of such. Better to check Pieris brassicae on Alexandr Boldyrev's website (aka Sungaya): http://insectamo.ru/larva/35-pieridae/73-pieris-brassicae

05.12.2013 5:37, Yuri Semejkin

Here is something similar http://lepidoptera.pro/gallery/4761, can't see clearly, no way to enlarge. Why anyway to have such if can't be properly seen? What's use of them?

05.12.2013 1:33, Yuri Semejkin

There were tulip and Perilla nankinensis plants nearby. Cabbages were a bit far, around 30m aside.
I was watching these larvae for few days, took 2 more. They all refused eating Ipomoea and finally died. Ipomoea was damaged slightly, could be snails though.
Before pupation larvae stop eating but unlikely they just happened to get on Ipomoea to pupate. Here two arguments. 1. No larva eventually pupated at home (save the pupation couldn't be finished due to some inappropriate conditions which is doubtful); 2. They neither pupated on Ipomoea in the garden, I didn't spot at least one pupa. They could pupate into the soil, didn't see that though.
That's it. Nothing to add, Irina. melete and dulcinea larvae should be checked, of course.

04.12.2013 23:08, Irina Nikulina

Yury, if not take into account Far East and Ipomoea, I'd suppose common Pieris brassicae (or shall I be corrected by some expert). Maybe some Brassicaceae grew somewhere close by and they just happened to get on Ipomoea? Or were they eating that? Some other Pieris species can be checked as well... Yet 3 out of 5 spread in that 40th region, are already out... melete and dulcinea larvae to check.

25.08.2013 6:35, Yuri Semejkin

Who can say that in the caterpillar, and then took one and she does not want to sort of have to take what is, ie Ipomoea purpurea. These were about ten caterpillars and leaf and for the top and on the stem.

24.08.2013 11:31, Yuri Semejkin

Aporia Crataegi?