Sighting 4206426
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Identification history
| Unidentified | 11 Apr 2019 | LisaWhite |
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Discovered while digging up sweet potatoes. Can the pupae/chrysalis be identified?
2 comments
KimPullen
wrote:
14 Apr 2019
The large larvae and the pupae are a hawk moth, possibly Hippotion scrofa which is recorded as feeding on Ipomoea. The smaller, white, curled larvae are beetles of the family Scarabaeidae.
LisaWhite
wrote:
15 Apr 2019
Thanks very much. I’ve heard that the curl grubs aren’t good in a vege patch so I fed them to the chooks. The hawk Moth pupae got replanted in the bed. Hoping that was for the best.
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- 4 - 15 Abundance
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Unidentified Insects LisaWhite South Coast NatureMapr
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