How do you find out the gender of a caterpillar?

Answer 1

There are several ways to determine butterfly gender:

(1) the way they look.

(2) the way they act.

(3) if they lay eggs.

(4) autopsy. Males are usually:

A) smaller because they have less weight (eggs) to carry, they need a greater strength to weight ratio (less wing area to muscle size) for better agility.

B) have scent scales to announced their gender to a female. (also seen on the forewing of the male buckwheat copper at the beginning and end of the video, he's dusting the female's antennae with his scent) Natural selection favors healthier, less worn males with more scent scales.

C) more brightly colored for.

a: A poison warning.

b: A flashy decoy so predators will chase the agile one, while the heavier and less obtrusive female hides.

c: A territorial advertisement to other butterflies. D) have more pointed forewings for flight aerodynamics, built for speed, chase & evasion.

E) have skinnier abdomens: no eggs. THERE ARE MORE WAYS THAN JUST THIS, VISIT THE "RELATED" LINK

Answer 2

The boy cicadas make a buzzing sound to attract the girl cicadas. Also, when you squeeze a cicada a tiny bit, it will do nothing or it will buzz. The ones that buzz are boys. The ones that don't buzz are girls.

Answer 3

I don't know about caterpillars but I do know who you do it with butterflies. Make a little paper butterfly on a stick and wave it in a group of butterflies. Males with try to attack it but females will just ignore it completely.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

To tell the gender of June bugs you need to examine the antennae. The male's antennae is significantly bigger than the antennae of the female.

Answer 5

you can tell the gender of the crickets by putting many of them together and watching how they separate them selves.

Answer 6

You can determine the sex of a cicada by looking at its belly. A female will have a groove which reveals the ovipositor. A male's abdomen ends in a square shaped flap.