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Insect and Spider Identification: CLOSED: Golden pupa - which could be this butterfly?, 0 by nushiamme

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nushiamme wrote:
This is definitely the Common Indian Crow.
I have raised a few of this one's caterpillars and released the butterflies at home.
You can take a big plastic bottle and poke holes in the lid. Then suspend the branches of oleander from one of the central holes with thread. This can be done with the caterpillars especially, they're quite happy feeding from a branch suspended upside down, as long as it has new leaves.
One thing I've noticed is that the butterfly emerges early morning, though I'm not sure how this varies with temperature, around the 8th morning after it has pupated.
I'm attaching a picture of a caterpillar I had.