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Tell me if it is possible to poison a cat with tiger moths

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Андрей14, 07.08.2022 7:22

Hello! An animal or cat is sick, there should be no special reasons, the cat is young, it is kept together with two other animals, they are healthy. I assumed poisoning, there is a habit of catching and eating moths and butterflies. Is it possible to be poisoned by bears when eating their cats? This year there are a lot of them, at first there was an invasion of large caterpillars covered with hairs, then the site often came across bear butterflies, as I understand two species, one of which is Kaya, from the caterpillar of another species I even managed to get a butterfly that made a clutch of eggs.

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08.08.2022 3:04, ИНО

Not straightened butterfly in the photo is similar to Arctia flavia. In theory, like Kaya, it should be poisonous.

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08.08.2022 12:32, Андрей14

Thanks!

08.08.2022 13:17, Necrocephalus

That's not the problem. Dipper butterflies are poisonous, of course, but it's not cyanide, and to poison a cat to death, it must be eaten more than one. But, in addition to being poisonous, they are also unpleasant to the taste, and in this regard, I faintly imagine a cat that will eat in a mass of bitter, burning-tasting butterflies. Unless, of course, she has an eating disorder.
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08.08.2022 23:10, А.Й.Элез

In the mid-1990s, in Poretsky (the district center in Chuvashia), I observed a massive flight of Arctia caja at streetlights at night, as well as cats sitting under the lanterns and instantly devouring every butterfly that sat on the asphalt or lawn. In general, cats, foxes, hedgehogs lie in wait and eat butterflies under lanterns recklessly, it's common, especially in the south. Dogs are not on duty, but on occasion they pounce and devour, but indiscriminately.
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08.08.2022 23:40, Ilia Ustiantcev

I wonder where so many flavias are crawling out in the Altai?

09.08.2022 17:12, Андрей14

That's not the problem. Dipper butterflies are poisonous, of course, but it's not cyanide, and to poison a cat to death, it must be eaten more than one. But, in addition to being poisonous, they are also unpleasant to the taste, and in this regard, I faintly imagine a cat that will eat in a mass of bitter, burning-tasting butterflies. Unless, of course, she has an eating disorder.

I don't think I wrote that I was poisoned to death, the cat refused food for two days, was not active, lay down, slept, now feels fine, just tried to determine the source of poisoning, from the abnormal only a large number of bears. this year, there were several caterpillars per day, they crawled along the roads, climbed everywhere, and then just as often butterflies began to come across.

09.08.2022 17:14, Андрей14

I wonder where so many flavias are crawling out in the Altai?

No. This is Buryatia. You can say almost in Ulan-Ude. This is the first year I've seen this number.

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09.08.2022 17:31, Андрей14

In the mid-1990s, in Poretsky (the district center in Chuvashia), I observed a massive flight of Arctia caja at streetlights at night, as well as cats sitting under the lanterns and instantly devouring every butterfly that sat on the asphalt or lawn. In general, cats, foxes, hedgehogs lie in wait and eat butterflies under lanterns recklessly, it's common, especially in the south. Dogs are not on duty, but on occasion they pounce and devour, but indiscriminately.

Of the three cats, only one of the youngest eats moths and butterflies.

11.08.2022 23:39, А.Й.Элез

Of the three cats, only one of the youngest eats moths and butterflies.
Well, we will have to assume that in the case I have described (and in many similar cases), every third cat is just huddled at the lanterns, and the rest are sitting at home.

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