Keeping and breeding butterflies

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13.10.2012 21:50, Hierophis

Well, it is obvious that sooner or later this will happen, and the butterflies will be released, or rather they may even already fall, just a certain number of such cases should accumulate, and some time should pass. And there is still not a fact that it will take root, although, judging by its natural range, it should at least live up to 50 latitudes in our country

A bindweed may not breed so well and eat just about anything.

In general, an interesting idea, although I personally have enough marbles, if I bred these hawkmoth then for observations. To maintain the culture, you need to mess around with pupation and mating, sorting, this is more difficult than breeding zophobos, probably as laborious as breeding crickets.

14.10.2012 14:03, Mistes

In principle, wheat germ can be perfectly replaced with spruce sawdust, and milk protein-crushed lime, which, in figs, is the difference - still white powder, cheap and angry. Linseed oil is replaced with used automobile glue, casein - casein stationery glue, a set of vitamins - ascorbic acid. It turns out a super mixture that can be used in a variety of ways - for example, just throw it out, is also not bad, ny?

The main question is-and, sopsno, what the hell is fooling around with the butterfly culture?
Who are you going to feed with these particular caterpillars?

I don't want to sound rude on a new resource for me, but if I were a moderator, you wouldn't be jumping around with such posts for a long time. I asked a specific question and expected to get a specific answer from competent people.
If you haven't met these animals in the culture and haven't seen what kind of animals they are and how they are eaten, I can't call this my problem. In terms of nutrition, hawk moth caterpillars are superior to locusts, at least not inferior to them. And definitely superior to zofobus. There is much less fuss with them. Approximately at the level of crickets, even less.

14.10.2012 15:59, Hierophis

Mistes, yes, everything happens on this resource, and even more northerly it got very cold, the insects hid, the school year began, everyone is angry, then they will still be more aggressive)))))))))))

If you already have caterpillars and / or eggs, tell us what they are in and how they are kept.

There are several topics on the content of butterflies as a culture, including even swallowtails, apollo and other sailboats, the main goal there is to get collectible specimens.

headshotboy, I have ognevki themselves divorced in a pack of cereals, and in such quantities that it's just creepy, in theory, they have enough conditions similar to the conditions for breeding small flour khrushchak - that is, a container that is very spacious and covered with a grid on top, and a pull-out tray in which a layer of dry grain is poured. That's it, that's the whole cycle. They do not need water at all, apparently, like flour crushers-they develop in complete dryness due to the metabolically obtained water.

In such a capacity, even a couple of crosses can be started - you will get a very good ecosystem with a very long period of isolation

14.10.2012 16:25, Mistes

No, I don't have any eggs or caterpillars yet. I don't see much point in getting animals without specifying the problem points and preparing the cages. I'll be in Moscow in a month or two, and it's quite possible I'll get it - then I'll write about the results.

There are no locusts in Krasnodar yet either. I'll probably try them later or in parallel with the hawk moth. For her, the main problem is heating and a sufficient amount of feed. If it is also possible to plant it on the IPS, then the problems with breeding will become much less.

I have information about the maintenance and breeding of sailboats and heliconids, but I don't have a corresponding goal.

For the soul, I still have enough terrariums and cockroaches, but for the food of both those and other butterflies - it's a pity.

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15.12.2012 1:14, Entomon

Butterflies do not have eggs, but eggs))) Tropical eggs need to be incubated in a humid environment, avoiding condensation on the eggs, which will cause mold to appear on them. In saturnias and sailboats, eggs are incubated for at least 7 days. If nothing happened after a month, then the clutch was not fertilized, or simply died and can be discarded

"Nursery" of Pear Saturnia (brood cage, below you can see eggs laid on paper)
As for the tracks:
Atlases eat: lilac, mulberry. Argema Mimosa feeds on mimosas, as well as on various types of sumac, and as for the Sailboat Rumyantsev, here the matter is more complicated - it feeds on citrus leaves and nothing else. For Saturn caterpillars, too high humidity is not needed (70%-75%), for sailboats the same thing, the main thing is to monitor the humidity and monitor the formation of condensation on the walls of the cage and leaves, the cage should be ventilated, if the caterpillar eats a leaf with a drop of water, it can die, and the small caterpillar will drown altogether. Well, as for the pupae, in my opinion, they are easy to incubate, the main thing: high humidity(90% -95%) and temperature (preferably 35°C, but you can also lower it, within 20°C)and a place in the incubator so that the butterfly can fully spread its wings.