Questions about Swallowtail tracks

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praersh, 12.10.2011 15:05

Maybe you know the answers to my questions about Swallowtail caterpillars:

1. Does anyone eat Swallowtail caterpillars? I have on the site somewhere they disappear and not only large size. Large ones may leave to pupate. One of them, turning into a pupa, was found, after 10 days a butterfly flew out of the pupa, but this moment was not found. I sin for forty – they flew to the site at this time to peck at sea buckthorn, but there is no damage to the dill from a large bird. Small birds nest on the site and in the district, but they are not particularly active on the site during the growth period-the loss of Swallowtail caterpillars is not observed. Quite large lizards also live on the site, but it is difficult to assume that they can climb the dill umbrella along a thin stalk.

2. Are the caterpillars committed to any one umbrella plant-angelica, dill, carrots, on which the Swallowtail butterfly laid an egg, or can they eat any umbrella plant? On the plot, I watched as two caterpillars moved from the old dried dill to the tops of carrots. But if the caterpillars from the wild umbrella, similar to the thigh (there are pictures), I don't know exactly the name, put on dill – will they be able to feed on it?

3. Does the rider lay its eggs in the Swallowtail caterpillar?

4. Do the caterpillars leave their food plant for a day or two?

5. On October 10, after the first frost, I found two small swallowtail caterpillars on the frozen dill. I cut dill preserved from the frost from my neighbors and put it on a bouquet, put caterpillars at home - the third one was brought by a neighbor. A day later, two caterpillars disappeared from the dill bouquet in turn - now there is only one left, intensively eating dill.
Questions about this case:
5.1. Do such late caterpillars die, or can they overwinter without pupating?
5.2. Why do" not grown up " caterpillars run away from dill?

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20.08.2015 9:02, Rusilen

Good afternoon.

On August 13, I found a caterpillar on dill.Papilio machaon.
After I realized that you can feed it not with miracle plants, but with ordinary dill and parsley, I left it at home. I live in an apartment. I put it in a plastic cup, in which I stuck dill and parsley, on the bottom of a little water, so that the greens were fresh longer.
Video http://youtu.be/sk8ugiqhv8U

They even took her to the dacha. Planted on dill, she did not crawl away, sometimes ate and sat on the stalk.
Video https://youtu.be/yCy1120SZEE

She ate a lot and also shat a lot. And I was still waiting for the pupa. 19.08 in the morning she left a puddle of liquid stopped eating and how let's rush around. I transplanted it into a glass jar, where I poured earth (I read that they are attached 3-5 cm above the ground, and there are only branches in the jar, so I thought maybe it would be more familiar to navigate from the ground) and stuck dry twigs of cherries, raspberries and even a piece of birch bark. In the evening at 19: 40, preferring a cherry, I made a loop out of my web, squeezed into it and calmed down.
Video https://youtu.be/TER4BQWpxHk
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The next day, around 18-24 hours, she pupated.
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It looks like it will be wintering. I live in an apartment. There is a glazed balcony and a refrigerator

. The Siberia region. Novokuznetsk. In winter -30 and below, on the balcony a little warmer. I guess it's better to put the pupa in the refrigerator. Questions arise.

1 need a smooth temperature transition? Or in the morning, while it's cool, put it in the refrigerator?
2 when is it best to do this? It's August and it's still warm/hot in the daytime, +15/+20+25, at night +12+17. In theory, if now in the refrigerator, it is far from the natural temperature conditions. Wait for the street to be like a refrigerator?
3 how to prepare a baby pupa? Close the jar with the earth with a leaky lid? Can't there be pests in the ground? Maybe the land needs to be removed? How often should I spray with water? Maybe something else needs to be done?
4 In what month and on what dates should I remove it from the refrigerator? I know that you will need a twig with twigs to dry the wings. What else do you need to know?

13.05.2016 17:49, Rusilen

So. Last fall, the swallowtail did not come out of the pupa and I prepared it for the winter in the refrigerator. The twig on which he pupated was placed in a small jar, put a wet cotton pad on the bottom (so as not to dry out) and covered it with foil by making holes in it with a fork. In winter, sometimes once a month, 1.5-2 drops of water dripped to the bottom in a cotton pad, and there were often droplets (condensate) on the walls of the jar. For me, this was an indicator that the humidity was high. It seems to me that when they winter, covered with snow there is just so - wet and cold. If I'm wrong, please correct me.
But the main thing is that it's spring now and when I took it out of the refrigerator after a couple of hours, I noticed how it twitches characteristically. Hooray! I let out a sigh of relief. Live! She wasn't killed.
There is still one more stage left. Properly organize a place for her where it will be convenient for her to hang and dry her wings. Then I will immediately release it, where the caterpillar came from - I will take it to the dacha.
I'll post everything here.

And so the pupa wintered.

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