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Phreatia crassiuscula, commonly known as the green caterpillar orchid, [2] is a plant in the orchid family and is an epiphyte or lithophyte with three to six fleshy, channelled leaves in a fan-like arrangement. Up to sixty tiny white, cream-coloured or greenish flowers are arranged along a curved flowering stem.
Plants contain toxins which protect them from herbivores, but some caterpillars have evolved countermeasures which enable them to eat the leaves of such toxic plants. In addition to being unaffected by the poison, the caterpillars sequester it in their body, making them highly toxic to predators. The chemicals are also carried on into the adult ...
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The caterpillars grow to about 25 mm long. In color, they vary from light green to a dark brownish green. Light green caterpillars have white lines running down the body from the head to the tip of the abdomen while the darker caterpillars have a black stripe the length of their back.
A nematode has been known to infect the caterpillar of the kawakawa moth as well as six known caterpillar and pupal parasitoids. The parasitoids live inside the kawakawa moth during its caterpillar stage, once the parasitoid has reached its maturity it will leave the body of the caterpillar and attach itself to the leaf of the kawakawa plant ...
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The caterpillars eat from several host plants. [6] Caterpillars begin as yellow with black stripes, but become blue green over time. Once they are blue green, they develop four red and one yellow protuberances. These caterpillars go through several instars or skin shedding, and usually after the fifth shedding the caterpillar is ready to form a ...
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