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Hyles euphorbiae - Larva / Tırtıl

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Hyles euphorbiae - Larva / Tırtıl


Hyles euphorbiae (Spurge Hawkmoth /Sütleğen Atmaca Güvesi] (Larva, Tırtıl)



The Spurge Hawkmoth caterpillar is smooth and black, with innumerable whitish dots; there are also eleven large spots of the same colour arrayed in a row on each side of the back, and beneath these as many spots of the same size and of a bright coral-red colour; the head is of the same coral-red colour, and a line of the same colour runs all along the back, from the head to the horn; the horn is red at the base and black at the tip. It feeds on sea-spurge. The chrysalis is pale brown and delicately lined and dotted with black in the manner of network; it buries itself in the loose dry sand on the sea coast. The eggs are covered with liquid gum, which enables them to stick on the small leaves of the spurge. In a fortnight these hatch and produce little black caterpillars; the white and red spots appear as the caterpillar increases in size, and in a few weeks it becomes a most beautiful object, and so conspicuous as to attract the sea-gulls and terns, which devour them in numbers. 





 


Author Bayram GÖÇMEN
Created on Wednesday 01 September 2010
Posted on Thursday 20 January 2011
Tags Antalya, TURKEY / TÜRKİYE
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