Posted by proteus on February 19, 2003 at 23:22:57:
In Reply to: Re: look what I found at work.... posted by proteus on February 19, 2003 at 23:18:35:
Excuse me,"Danous = Danaus" and "amoung = among"
*hates* type-o's.
:It's very common for some species' chrysalis to turn brown or be brown. Like in the cases of Danous plexippus (monarch), Junonia coenia (buckeye) and Nymphalis antiopa (mourning cloak), to name a few. So the brown chrysalis is a common color amoung butterflies; and to most people the browned look-of-it immediately makes people assume that it's dead.
:From what I've read about how many days in pupation that elapses is 10-14 (like leaf rollers, cabbage loopers, beet armyworms)(families : Noctuidae, Pyralidae, and Tortricidae).
:In summation, I listed moths (as opposed to butterflies) becuase I could'nt find anything on how many days a butterfly stays in it's pupa.
