Identification of larvae and pupae

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24.01.2018 15:55, baraum

Try putting lettuce leaves on a layer of good neutral earth, about 10 centimeters thick. Maybe the caterpillar will dig in and go into hibernation. Then you need to keep it in the refrigerator.

Sorry to ask too many questions. I'm very afraid that something is wrong to do. What does a good neutral land mean, here we have a continuous peat land, even in stores like

this, and I don't understand the store processing at all, in the sense that there may be some chemicals added? Which one should I take from the pot? There is peat, will it do? Transfer to the cold gradually? And finally, here it is buried, and then how to determine that the caterpillar is not dead, or it will come to the surface before its last breath. And then I will get that in the refrigerator there is a coffin with a caterpillar

Now it sleeps in lettuce leaves. Moved to a cooler room. On the loggia it is now +6, but in general, what temperature should it be?

24.01.2018 16:06, baraum

What can I say here Start collecting butterflies, or follow the advice above.

I can't collect it, I wanted to release it, but it's cold there, I would have thrown it in the trash earlier and wouldn't have thought

about it, but it's cold here, it's not good...

Oh, if it were summer, I wouldn't even ask myself such a question, I would release it and that's it. In the spring, in March, I'm going to Italy, maybe let it out there, throw it to a relative in the garden

...or customs will pick up a pest, that's fun.

Although everything that is not done is all for the best, before everything that looks like worms caused panic fear, and now, when I read your forum, and looked at it with a magnifying glass, I completely stopped being afraid and look at it completely differently...

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24.01.2018 16:57, okoem

And what should I do, I'm really upset ... and it's growing...

Judging by this photo, one of these days she will finish eating. Fill her box where she lives with soil. A layer of about 3 cm will be enough. It is better if the soil is moist. Peat or something else, there is no difference. When the caterpillar is buried, wait about a week, then dig out the pupa.
Put the pupa in a cardboard box or in any box that is not smooth from the inside, where the butterfly can crawl along the vertical wall. And wait for the butterfly.
Butterflies have no options, they are doomed. And you have such options:
- prick on a pin and straighten.
"let her out on the street, where she'll die."
- leave her at home, feed her, and watch her rub down, break off her wings, and turn into a corpse.

24.01.2018 21:18, vidjl

With such options, I think to do so, fill up the earth and take it out on the balcony, after a few days go to the forest and pour the earth into the snow and let it rest in peace...

If you are not a fan of collecting, you can just bring out a butterfly. The butterfly lives a little more than a month, it may well live this period at your home, pleasing the eye in the middle of winter. It's easy to feed: put cut fruits from which she can drink juice. I do not think that it will quickly beat the wings, put it on the window so that it sees the light, you can put it in a five-liter plastic drinking water can. After leaving the pupa, it can generally sit for 5 days in one place. I now have about a dozen butterflies living in the middle of winter, new ones are constantly being born. Some on a needle, some just for the eyes. I and other entomologists certainly need a good copy, but you don't need it, so you can try it.
Here's what you should get

http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=398963

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25.01.2018 0:25, baraum

I do not think that it will quickly beat the wings, put it on the window so that it sees the light, you can put it in a five-liter plastic drinking water can. After leaving the pupa, it can generally sit for 5 days in one place. I now have about a dozen butterflies living in the middle of winter, new ones are constantly being born. Some on a needle, some just for the eyes.[/url]

Well, I have a small choice, I'll try, today I noticed she is constantly hiding, I think you can already put the ground, it is written dry, I only have dry leaves from malochaya, figs knows if it is possible, it remains to figure out whether it is worth putting it in the cold, it will not go into hibernation 100%? Damn, I hope so... So I wanted to let out

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25.01.2018 19:58, okoem

so I did everything wrong, I should have put it in a colder place right away? And now it's too late, it will not go into hibernation, although apparently in any case I will not make it to spring? Thank you for patiently responding. Put the earth, it is squeamish somehow reacts to it, does not want to go down, although it was sniffing around the box, now it is sitting in the leaves of the frellis, it is somehow sluggish...

If when you found it, it was already large, then even in the cold, even if not in the cold, there would not be much difference. I would eat and grow.
Scoops have a number of caterpillars that overwinter at early instars (i.e., small ones). There are also some species in which the caterpillar finishes feeding and then just sits there, not eating until spring. But your caterpillar, in my opinion, is not from this group.
If the soil is dry, then not all caterpillars like this. It is better to moisten the soil.

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26.01.2018 0:28, baraum

Scoops have a number of caterpillars that overwinter at early instars (i.e., small ones). There are also some species in which the caterpillar finishes feeding and then just sits there, not eating until spring. But your caterpillar, in my opinion, is not from this group.
If the soil is dry, then not all caterpillars like this. It is better to moisten the soil.

I found the caterpillar on the 20th on the refrigerator, where it came from I don't know. During these days, it has doubled in size. Now I found her in such a strange position - on her side, eating badly, and now I think she doesn't eat at all... I saw her still half buried in the ground, but now she just sits under the leaves and sleeps or something, when you disturb her, trying to hide... I sprayed the soil from a spray bottle on top or pour plenty of water?

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