Moth from yellow black caterpillar

MY OBSERVATIONS

Food Plant : Lannea coromandelica ("Uthi" in Malayalam)

CATERPILLAR

Yellow  colour with black strips

Length 3.5 cm

Length of hairs 2 cm, and white in colour, only on black strips

Body width 0.4 cm

PUPA

Pupate in soft wood

Made a cage like covering (cocoon) with the bark of the wood

Starting the cage making at night (only in the dark) around 8 pm

If  we pointing a light source, it stops the work

Very small pieces of bark pasted to make these cage

Starting the cage from the middle portion of the body

Taking the bark from left and pasting it in the right

After finishing the half portion caterpillar turns and starts making the other portion

ADULTS

Emerged at night at 10.45 Pm

Excrete dark orange and thick liquid just after emerging. It hardened after few seconds

The curled wings takes 3 to5 minutes to open completely

Wings are dark brown in colour outside and brownish grey inner with white lines and black markings

Half portion of the under side of the wing is orange from the top

Inner side of the leg is orange and outer grey

In front of the black eyes there is two hornlike organ and in between them a yellow sucker is spiraled

Having segmented antenna

There is spin  in the joints of legs

FROM THE TIME OF PUPATE IT TAKES 16 DAYS TO EMERGE AS ADULT