Below all from the same batch of eggs last year
27/04/2020 - eggs deposited by the female in an egg box
14/05/2020 - 12 caterpillars hatched (then fed on Silver Birch leaves)
16/06/2020 - they all went underground to pupate in compost
27/07/2020 - 4 adults emerged and left that evening (one more was later found dead in the garden hut)
06/05/2021 - 1 adult emerged
27/07/2021 - 1 adult emerged leaving a hole in the compost but I couldn't find it till this morning when it was resting in the window of the garden hut. Exactly the same date as the emergent's last year !
Lesser Swallow Prominent today (with window reflection)!
I still have 5 pupae in the compost - to wait and see what happens next - or are they dead - we shall see.
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