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10-11-2009, 11:50 AM
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| | | Harlequin pupa - interesting colour change
I thought some of you might be interested to see the extreme colour change that a Harlequin pupa goes through. These two photos of the same pupa were taken less than a day apart. The earliest is the bright orange and white pic.  
This colour change was of course correctly suggested by charlieb in an earlier forum thread  .
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10-11-2009, 11:55 AM
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| | | Re: Harlequin pupa - interesting colour change
Interesting this Bruce,Ladybird larvae I could do,I've never thought though about IDing pupae.Maybe somebody knows a good resource for this purpose. |
10-11-2009, 12:16 PM
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| | | Re: Harlequin pupa - interesting colour change
The first reminds me of an orange ice lolly 
This site ( Coleoptera - photo gallery beetles - Fotogalerie Kfer) has a lot of photos of beetles in general - if you select a family, scroll down the list you'll see the species names with little icons next to them (mating, male, female), the one that looks like a little bird is the pupal indicator
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10-11-2009, 12:22 PM
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| | | Re: Harlequin pupa - interesting colour change
Cheers Charlie,yes the first one looks like tangerine and cream ,you can tell its lunchtime |
10-11-2009, 12:26 PM
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| | | Re: Harlequin pupa - interesting colour change
Possibly they are drying. Have a look on here
austinbug dot com/coccinellidae.html
The ones I kept in the summer darkened a lot prior to the ladybird emerging.
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10-11-2009, 01:31 PM
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| | | Re: Harlequin pupa - interesting colour change
Great links Charlie and Lori - both new to me.
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10-11-2009, 01:39 PM
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| | | Re: Harlequin pupa - interesting colour change
That's certainly a huge colour change Bruce!
Jason, some sites which show pupa and larva as well. Coccinellidae Stippen...
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16-11-2009, 11:18 AM
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| | | Re: Harlequin pupa - interesting colour change
Two good links to add to my Favourites - thanks Janet.
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