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The name 'Spitfire' is often given to two common species of Australian insect larvae. One is a Caterpillar : Doratifera vulnerans, which everts stinging hairs when disturbed. It does not actually spit anything, but the sting from the hairs hurts like a burn does.
Spitfire Caterpillar Photograph by Jason Asher Fine Art America
The term spitfire is most commonly a slang term for several species of sawfly larvae from the family Pergidae. Despite the name, the larvae are not from a fly at all but actually a wasp with four wings and no stinger. And the larvae, while they might look like it, aren't really caterpillars.
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Despite looking a bit like caterpillars, spitfires won't grow into butterflies, but instead they emerge as sawflies. Most sawflies are females and lay fertile eggs without mating. Girl power! The eggs hatch in 2 to 8 weeks to form small spitfires.
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Spitfire caterpillars are actually the larvae of sawflies, not butterflies or moths. Sawflies are closely related to wasps, but they don't sting. Their life cycle is fascinating and quite different from moths and butterflies. Let's dive into the life cycle of a spitfire caterpillar.
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A spitfire is not a caterpillar and does not turn into a moth or butterfly. A lot of people believe that any caterpillar that is hairy is automatically a spitfire, mostly due to lack of knowledge on the subject. What you have here is a Hairy Mary who will one day be a large moth. The most these cats will give you is a rash if you happen to be.
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ITAP of a spitfire caterpillar on some broken straw in Launceston, Tasmania itookapicture
The Steel Blue Sawfly Larvae is commonly known as a "spitfire" or "spitfire caterpillar". A sawfly larvae, AKA spitfire, on my hand. Just after the photo it had a big "spit" of yucky yellow fluid onto my hand I found this one out the back while putting the clothes on the line.
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One day, the caterpillar stops eating, hangs upside down from a twig or leaf and spins itself a silky cocoon or molts into a shiny chrysalis. Within its protective casing, the caterpillar.
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As the caterpillar grows it splits its skin and sheds it about 4 or 5 times. Food eaten at this time is stored and used later as an adult. Caterpillars can grow 100 times their size during this stage. For example, a monarch butterfly egg is the size of a pinhead and the caterpillar that hatches from this tiny egg isn't much bigger.
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How a caterpillar becomes a butterfly: Metamorphosis, explained. This incredible transformation has a purpose: Allowing insects at different life stages to avoid competing for food. The chrysalis.
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Once the butterfly has a chance to dry and expand its shriveled wings by pumping them full of blood, it's off to find a mate—and to begin the life cycle anew. To see more than 500 live butterflies—and to examine chrysalises up close—visit The Butterfly Conservatory, opening Saturday, October 7. Pin-sized egg. Hungry caterpillar. Winged.
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Caterpillars. Love them or hate them, caterpillars are an important part of the Australian environment. They can bring joy in the form of the promise of a beautiful butterfly, despair as they devour tender young broccoli plants, or itching and pain as a spitfire caterpillar brushes against your bare skin. Around August, moths and butterflies.
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Larvae are caterpillar-like and feed on plant material. The egg-laying apparatus (ovipositor) of most species looks like a saw, which gives them their name. Sawflies are probably closest to the ancestral form that all hymenopterans (ants, wasps, bees and sawflies) evolved from. Their name comes from the female's saw-like egg-laying tube, which.
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The spitfire sawfly ( Perga affinis, family Pergidae) is a hymenopteran insect found in Australia. It is up to 22 mm long, has two pairs of wings, with a wingspan up to 40 mm, and its wings are honey colored. Its larvae are up to 80 mm long and somewhat resemble a caterpillar.
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Caterpillars are the larval stage of butterflies and moths, and at this stage of their life cycle they are a major garden pest on many fruits and vegetables, ornamental plants and shade trees. They are normally hairless, with a long, soft, segmented cylindrical body around 10mm to 50mm in length and vary in colour.