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11-08-2008, 11:54 AM
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| | | Identification of pupal case, please.
Here: 
I guess it must be a fair sized beast, with powerful jaws - enough to pulp wood!
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11-08-2008, 12:02 PM
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| | | Re: Identification of pupal case, please.
Interesting - can you give a rough idea of the size? |
11-08-2008, 12:04 PM
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| | | Re: Identification of pupal case, please.
Looks like Puss Moth. Formed by the caterpillar chewing wood before it pupates inside.
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11-08-2008, 12:11 PM
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| | | Re: Identification of pupal case, please.
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Originally Posted by djackso  Interesting - can you give a rough idea of the size? | Internal dimensions: 33x15mm.
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11-08-2008, 12:18 PM
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| | | Re: Identification of pupal case, please.
right size for puss moth 
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11-08-2008, 04:00 PM
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| | | Re: Identification of pupal case, please.
Hi
this is a Puss Moth cocoon before hatching. They look the same shape. 
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11-08-2008, 04:50 PM
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| | | Re: Identification of pupal case, please.
Yup - it looks like it was a Puss Moth. I wish I'd seen the lava, it's <mumble, mumble> years since I've seen one - very impressive beast!
Thanks for the help in identification.
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12-08-2008, 12:24 AM
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| | | Re: Identification of pupal case, please.
Definitely Puss moth! The catterpillars are stunningly marked !!
I was given one of these a few years ago by local children who knew me as 'The bug lady'! I put into a container with some egg boxes and was astonished to see (and hear!) it ripping the egg box up and making a purple dome on another egg box. It was very hard by the next morning and I was able to show the children what it had done.
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