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Base gallery. Upperside. Alive insect.
Photo, and identified by: Yuri Semejkin. Image without retouching at the website
Date and time, location shooting/catching: 2016-04-07 00:00:00, Владивосток, Ботанический сад-институт ДВО РАН
Photographer's comment: An instance derived from the pupa. The pupa was taken in nature on March 26, 2016 and wintered on a sheet of iron, at an altitude of about 2 m and did not freeze. So all the literature sources claiming that pupae hibernate in leaf litter under snow in order not to freeze do not correspond to reality. They are not so much afraid of the cold as they are of various insects for the larvae, and probably birds for the pupae ?Please, create an account or log in to add comments.
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