Caterpillar hatching from metallic looking eggs, eating eggshell chorian which is proteinaceous

Cycnia oregonensis, an #Arctiid #moth... I've been 🔍 ng 4 years! Eggs start cream colored. Congeners are known to have a mutation in their sodium pump which provides resistance & promotes toxin sequestration from #Apocynum... This species lacks the mutation, so we predict that it will not sequester!