Behaviour of Malayan Eggfly

[Sky Blue]

yup, quite a nice shot.

waiting to see the result

[Common Mime]

Confirmed that these are larvas of Malayan Eggfly.

[Silverstreak]

Fairly huge cat almost 5-6 cm in length , suspect it is a moth of some kind. The whole plant was infested with at least 30-40 of them.

[Commander]

That looks like one of those Eggfly cats, either subspecies bolina or jacintha. Compare with the shots taken by CM when he bred them.

[Common Mime]

Looks like the Malayan Eggfly especially you mention "The whole plant was infested with at least 30-40 of them."

http://b-pals.com/forums/showthread.php?t=3214

So far from my own observation, only Malayan Eggfly lays egg in bulk while the Great Eggfly and Jacintha Eggfly lay either single egg or few eggs.

Sunny, what do it feed on?

[Silverstreak]

CM ,

As requested , the host plan...

[EarlyStages]

For those wanting to learn more about the Malayan Eggfly's (Hypolimnas anomala) exceptional maternal behavior of egg "guarding", here's an abridged copy of a report from insular Guam. If interested in receiving the source PDF, 776 Kb with three figures and one table, please send me a PM.

May I suggest this thread be renamed "Malayan Eggfly Behavior"? Thank you.

Keith

[Common Mime]

Hi Keith,

Many thanks for your contribution with regards to the write up for the guarding behaviour shown by the Hypolimnas anomala.

Instead of renaming the thread, I decide to merge the thread with an earlier thread which has the same duscussion.

CM ,
As requested , the host plan...

Hi Sunny,

Thanks for the photos. Yes, I can 99.99% confirm these are the larvaes of the Hypolimnas anomala.

[Silverstreak]

Hypolimnas anomala[/I].

We will know for 100% soon, I took back four cats and they have pupated.

[Silverstreak]

Eclosed this morning and released , confirmed it is the cat for the Hypolimnas anomala anomala (Malayan Eggfly).