Keeping and breeding butterflies

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25.07.2008 23:17, Rafia

I spent half a day on the Internet, reading all sorts of things about feeding and caring for butterflies. But in the afternoon I got a call - another problem at home: the cat scattered the rags (probably hearing rustles), pulled off the gauze and managed to grab one beauty

. It was taken away and put back in its place. The cat was isolated...
In the evening, I arrived, diluted honey with water-1/10, fed the butterflies. I studied the wounded one - it won't fly

. But she is cheerful, with a good appetite, crawls and flaps her wings. Along the way, it was discovered that one butterfly is very underdeveloped - it has short, irregular legs, small wings - probably this is the one that pupated the worst... She couldn't even eat and passed away very soon

. Another butterfly also has some not quite normal wings - they are almost transparent at the edges, I think that they, after all, prevented each other from spreading!
So, I fed all the healthy and full-fledged ones, waited a little and released them - they flew away as they should! I have those at home who obviously will not survive in nature. I brought them twigs, sticks, some grass, nettles, and clover.
Please tell me who knows!!!
1. How long do these butterflies (daytime peacock's eye) live? (The Internet does not mention their life span, but it says that they can spend the winter!)
2. How can I provide my flightless butterflies with the most comfortable life possible?
3. Is it possible to create conditions for them to lay eggs and how to do it?
Thank you for your help! I hope that with her (your help), we will help my poor children survive and maybe even bring offspring!

26.07.2008 10:29, DIMID

No matter how you look at it,but butterflies will not live more than 2 months with you,this is only at first glance not difficult.It took me 3 years to put experiments, so that 4 dozen
admirals (out of 90 pieces) would normally overwinter, in the spring they would mate in the greenhouse.
The most difficult thing is to prepare the adult for wintering, then pull it out of it.I have
admirals lived(live)from 2.5 weeks, up to 8 months.I recommend that all those who keep domestic nymphalids use the following food feeds:
1-Birch sap(1-2 times a week)
2-Very ripe apricot (as much as you want)
3 - White and black grapes (1-2 times a week)It contains natural fructose(and not its substitutes) and PVC (pyruvic acid in a normal amount
At the expense of honey,I do not use it for 5 years, after I incorrectly made
a solution and I lost one and a half hundred admirals.
And yet, for this family, you need not a small cubic capacity of free space for their fast flight.Good luck.Thank you.

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31.07.2008 23:25, okoem

I found a pair of caterpillars of the large harpy (Cerura vinula) and a pair of caterpillars of the poplar harpy (Furcula bifida). The caterpillars of both species were sitting on a young poplar tree (about a meter from the ground). Accordingly, I threw leaves from this poplar tree into a jar with caterpillars. And the caterpillars don't want to eat it. Not those, not others. What should I feed them?

This poplar and feed. What is not eaten - I can assume two reasons. First, they may be preparing for molting. And before molting, the caterpillars do not feed. Secondly, I myself nursed Cerura vinula recently. She didn't want to eat the leaves lying flat on the bottom of the jar. In the jar you need to put not individual leaves, but a whole branch with freely hanging leaves.

This post was edited by okoem - 07/31/2008 23: 28

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