In answer to Dennis, below, it's difficult to give a useful comparison because I have only searched on readily accessible sallows, in places I can easily check on my daily dog-walk. Of 12 eggs originally found, the tally is: 10 hatched (the remaining two are dead), 3 cats gone awol, 1 cat known dead and 6 still in the pink of health (3 1st instar and 3 2nd instar, as of today). I subsequently found another second instar cat, so I am presently keeping tab on 7 cats in total. They are (as photographed this morning):
Brahmā:
Sarasvatī:
Varuṇa
Indra
Trijaṭā
Vibhīṣaṇa
Sītā
Poor old Rāma was eaten by something a couple of days ago - so he's the one I know is dead:
The egg that I found eaten on August 10th is still intact on its leaf, nearly three weeks later:
(Aug 10th)
(today, 29th August)
Et voilà! It remains to be seen how many of these I will be able to follow into hibernation!
Guy
1 comment:
thanks Guy;
well, it is obviously better than in the uk.
We will be in Switzerland from 5th to 16th Sept in Basel, and I shall visit my 'old wood' there, which was such a happy hunting ground for iris larvae from 1981 until 2002 when we left
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