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Vanessa itea CarbonAI 24 Nov 2024
Vanessa kershawi MichaelBedingfield 22 Nov 2024
Unverified Aussiegall 20 Nov 2024

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Picked a lettuce and this chrysalis was on it so I have put it in a container and will try to keep the lettuce alive until it emerges. It is only small, measured it with a ruler and it is 20mm long and appears to be orange and black, not sure if it is a butterfly or moth?

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   21 Nov 2024
A butterfly
   21 Nov 2024
Hi Aussiegall, looks like a mature Vanessa kershawi pupa. Hope you get to see the butterfly emerge.
   24 Nov 2024
@MichaelBedingfield It did emerge but unfortunately, I was out when it did and came home to find that it had fallen off the leaf onto the bottom of the container. I carefully popped it back on the leaf in the garden and it unfurled, when I went back to check on it later, it was gone

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