Black Caterpillar

in #macrophotography7 years ago (edited)

Info Hama - Black Caterpillar Rami is a pest insect that has a specific host, which is only found to attack the flax plant and its close relatives from the family Urticaceae (herbivore specialist).

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This hemp caterpillar belongs to a pest that attacks flaxseed, often called the common name of the hemp caterpillar, because at the stage of the larvae and the imago is active at night, the color of imago is dominated by black.

Growth and development of larvae starting from larvae at instar-3 until the end of instar-5 (beginning of prepupa) is observed in the field of color aggregation occurs, ie the morphology of the larvae body varies with the white or black color on the dorsal side, and on the lateral side adorned with patches of orange color and white lines anteriorposterior direction.

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The black caterpillar on the head, the last segment of the abdomen and the false legs are orange or black. Some eggs are placed scattered on the hemp clumps.

The newly hatched larvae amount to hundreds of tails such as grayak caterpillars, small caterpillars clustered on leaves with droplets of small white and transparent holes due to the many forages of edible leaves.

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After the leaves in one grove eaten away move to another flax plant. Severe damage caused by larger larvae by eating all parts of the leaves so that the plants meranggus and left only the bones of the leaves.

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