Typical army caterpillars, showing at left a chrysalis and a parasitic ichneumon fly which destroys the caterpillars. The moths mate soon after they emerge from the chrysalids and the females lay up to 500 eggs in the folded blades of grass or cereal crops.
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 98, Issue 4, 15 April 1959, Page 329
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44Typical army caterpillars, showing at left a chrysalis and a parasitic ichneumon fly which destroys the caterpillars. The moths mate soon after they emerge from the chrysalids and the females lay up to 500 eggs in the folded blades of grass or cereal crops. New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 98, Issue 4, 15 April 1959, Page 329
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