Plants for insectarium

According to the description, just some set of mutually exclusive phenomena will turn out. Although, of course, butterflies and beetles are different: mill fire with flour krushchak in this container will quite get along in large numbers. Insectariums are very inconvenient to leave aquariums, because it is very desirable that the front wall is moved or removed. Opening only from above for beetles is suitable, but butterflies-except in the caterpillar stage. In general, keeping mace-whiskered lepidoptera in a compact insectarium as pets, in my opinion, borders on sadism, they will be ragged and unhappy there, although they may multiply with grief.

Butterflies need food plants for their caterpillars, and each species needs its own. Beetles, if they are large scarabaeids or lucanids (and others are very difficult to get, except for catching local ones), are not shown any plants at all: the imago will be trampled, and the larvae will gnaw the roots. If you ignore the inhabitants, then a great variety of plants is suitable for your requirements, perhaps the most unpretentious and affordable of them are fittonia. Why do you want beetles and butterflies? There are many more options for rainforest terrariums, and many of them are much easier to maintain. I would recommend paying attention to large cockroaches: Madagascar cockroaches, blaberus cockroaches, alfalfa cockroaches, etc. Or even on reptiles.

Yes, my sisters wanted butterflies, a friend saw them in the aquarium. And my aquarium has been empty for a year now, so we decided to plant them there, and in order to diversify the animals, I decided to start some other animals, of all I decided to stop at peaceful beetles, my parents will not tolerate cockroaches, and they seem to be hiding, and the girls need to watch the animals

The sisters have a very unusual friend. Maybe she doesn't have an aquarium after all, but a special insectarium, and the sisters just didn't understand. Or maybe just a single-use butterfly? You would be better to personally go to this babochkovodke, see what and how, consult.

Cockroaches hide only when the kitchen lights are turned on, and even those, if they are not touched, gradually stop. The ones I mentioned above are quite visible crawling in room light. Something like this:



The main advantage of cockroaches over any other insects is the exceptional ease of maintenance, availability of feed and spontaneous breeding without any additional effort on the part of the breeder. There are a lot of types available for sale for every taste and color (there are even species that flutter as well as butterflies and are no less brightly colored), although it should be noted that not all of them are as simple as I described. But even a child can easily handle the maintenance of representatives of the genera Blaberus, Eublaberus, Archimandrita, and Madagascar (Gromphadorhina, Princissia, and Elliptorhina). With butterflies, everything is much more complicated. Beetles are somewhere in the middle in terms of complexity of keeping, but there are nuances, such as making the right substrate for larvae, maintaining the right humidity during metamorphosis (step left step right - shooting death), high mortality from diseases and parasites. And most importantly-most of the beetle's life takes place in the larval phase, which is not particularly pleasant to look at for most people and even does not come to the surface.

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Butterflies in the aquarium quickly obobitsyaetsya. Let them fly freely in the room! That's how they lived with me. And here's how they live in the Butterfly House in Vladivostok.

In my room, however, they did not fly all day, but for an hour or two. And so we sat in a box in the dark. So I fed them sweet water.

Plants for them can also be artificial. To drink nectar from flowers, you need to insert ampoules with fructose and a wick of cotton wool into them.

Didn't you hit the windows?" No matter how many times I tried to put representatives of our local fauna in the room, all the time it ended with persistent slotting through the window.

This post was edited by ENO - 26.11.2016 01: 54

I used to cover the windows with tulle curtains. And he made a strong light in the room, so that the windows did not compete with it.

I had Maaka tail-bearers and swallowtails. When he lived in Vladivostok.

I also drew the curtains - sat on the curtains and sat. What kind of lamps should be in the room to be brighter than the sunlight? I don't have any of them, and I haven't seen any others in their apartments. I didn't try it with sailboats, only with nymphalids and whiteflies, it always turned out badly. Here bumblebees with difficulty, but still managed to get used to completely ignore the window and visit the syringe with honey instead of flowers.

I used ordinary incandescent lamps. Energy-saving devices were still rare at that time. Just made a strong light. About the same observed in the House of butterflies in Vladivostok this summer. There are no windows at all! Butterflies are flying all day long.

That was the lighting there.

Some butterflies did not fly, and they could be picked up...

I also visited a similar "babochkarium" without windows. Only there they did not allow you to touch them with your hands, fortunately for the butterflies. But these hatching tropical butterflies are kind of sluggish and lazy, compared to our local wild ones, maybe they won't even beat on the windows in an ordinary apartment.

Local and tropical beetles, grasshoppers, local dragonflies and butterflies beat on the windows.
If they don't hit the windows, for example, in the dark in winter, then they hit the lamp.
You can fix this only with such lamps as in the photo of Yuri or if you make a solid luminous surface, i.e. the diffuser of the lamps is common, but I personally did not try it and left this matter.
Curtains, blinds do not help exactly. At a minimum, they will climb for them. It is probably best to cover the window glass with something opaque or a diffuser that transmits very little light.
And as a cheap general diffuser for lamps, you can try using polycarbonate for greenhouses.

I had a chandelier in my room, a floor lamp and two more lamps hung in shades. I covered everything with a net so that the butterflies wouldn't get burned. The windows were hung, but covered with tulle. Butterflies flew in the room almost like in nature. Well, some of them tried to reach the lamps and the window, hit the screen sometimes, and sat on it. Then they took off again. True, they were all deductible. I didn't run any wild cards. Winter was outside the window!

The late Vladimir Meshcheryakov was probably the first person in the country to hold such exhibitions of fluttering butterflies. In the hall of the Palace of Pioneers, where he worked. He told me that at the" rehearsal " he released wild butterflies caught in nature into it. What they did! They ran around like mad, hitting the windows and lamps. Then he released the brooders. It was quite another matter! They flew calmly, they were given in their hands. Since then, he has used only brood butterflies for exhibitions.