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Posted by nancy86 Houston 9 (My Page) on Thu, Oct 22, 09 at 0:13
| Anyone know what two sulfurs these are?
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RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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Those are orange-barred sulphurs - congrats!
Sherry |
RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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| Apparently a one-way branch with no passing lane. |
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Oops, I'm glad I checked back to this thread! The cat on the far right is a cloudless sulphur - I didn't see it when I first answered your question.
Sherry |
RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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| Well how interesting! Then it turns out I get a lot of orange barred sulphurs because that is the cat I see the most. And that cloudless suphur cat is the first time I've seen one like that. Thanks for identifying! Cute Larry! |
RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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I don't get orange barred sulphurs, but I wish I did - they're beautiful!
Cloudless sulphurs are green when all they eat is leaves, but if they start eating yellow flowers, they turn yellow -
Sherry |
RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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| So I guess this is an orange barred sulphur who has been eating flowers 
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RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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I'm not positive what that one is. I've never seen a yellow cloudless sulphur with burgundy horizontal bands, so I looked it up, and one of my books has a picture of a yellow CS cat just like yours. The fact that it's orangey makes me think it's purged and is about to pupate.
I looked up some info on orange-barred sulphurs, and they also have a green and a yellow form, so maybe that's what your cat is, but I think it's more likely a CS.
Sherry |
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| I think the CS is one of the prettiest cats! I love the blue stripe and the velvety appearance. The SOs are also look like a strip of velvet ribbon. We are too far north for the Orange Barred Sulphurs but they sure are pretty, too! I have never found Orange or Dogface either, so can't speak for them. Probably because their host plants are of a weedy, often low-growing nature. Has anyone ever raised either of these? |
RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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| Nancy I am glad you posted this as I have a branch that looks just like yours! BUT upon closer inspection mine have bands that go all the way around, where yours have spots down the sides that do not stretch across the back. Hmm I guess I'll have to post a picture that MissSherry can ID. The CS cats really are cool! Love the blue! No mistaking that one. |
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| Actually my "other" ones look more like the one above with the maroon bands, except mine have black bands. I also have the ones with the neon blue, sooo cool! Gonna have to tag them once they pupate so I remember which cats became what. The sulphurs are really hard to ID, IMO. 
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RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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Interesting, all the different colorations cloudless and orange-barred cats take on!
Looks a bit like the two on the left are cloudless, and the one on the right with the gap down the middle in the horizontal bars is an orange-barred, but I could sure be wrong! :)
Sherry |
RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world P.S.
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I saw a female cloudless laying eggs on my Christmas cassias yesterday, so I pulled the branches down to check out egg today, and found not only eggs, but early instar cats! While we haven't had a freeze, the temps have been up and down, and one night last week it got down to 40 degrees - 'hope the temps stay warm enough to finish these cats out. If they predict a freeze, they may still make it, because Christmas cassia retains some leaves all winter long. Or maybe if they predict a freeze and the cats aren't through, I can cut off a lot of leaves, put them in a container of water and keep it in the fridge to feed them myself in the house. This would be okay, because I see adult sulphurs flying on sunny winter days every year.
Sherry |
Traffic jam here too!!
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RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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Hey Sherry, cloudless and orange-barred, that's what I was kinda thinking. As I said I am going to try and tag the chrysalides so I know which was which when they eclose. One pupated the other day but by the time I found it hanging it had lost all its markings and was mostly just yellow so I am not sure which it is.
One of the ones with the blue on the sides pupated last night. Easy to tell that one as the pupa is much smaller than the other one.
Oh well time will tell! |
RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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| What kind of caterpillars are those in the last picture? |
RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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Hi Nancy, those are zebra longwings, Heliconius charithonia.
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RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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| Oh I would LOVE to get some of those! I have only seen them in pictures! |
RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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I actually got a visit from a zebra years ago, and they're officially documented in Jackson County, but I've never seen one here since. I just LOVE those LONG wings, and the white cats are so cool!
Sherry |
RE: Traffic is bad in Houston, even in the bug world
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| I wish I'd see a lot more! They are our state butterfly after all!! They are very neat. |
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