Pairing with the slightly smaller males is very brief, usually from 30 minutes to two hours. Females make their ovapositing flights in the twilight hours and usually deposit from 15-50 ova in numerous clusters on supporting twigs. Larvae hatch in February and March and are highly gregarious and black in the first instar. Larvae wander and become solitary feeders in the final stages. Pupation is on the surface in a chamber fashioned under loose debris.
Most pupae eclose that fall but some overwinter for several years.
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