Keeping and breeding butterflies

Caterpillars of many species can weave a cocoon not only for pupation, but also for normal molting, or just to wait out unfavorable conditions.

Hello! Tell me such a thing. It was possible to get offspring from a female Swallowtail collected in nature. The stage of eggs, larvae and pupae is passed. I wanted to get the next generation. And they don't want to mate. Hence the question of how to create conditions for mating? And in general, how is it more efficient to organize the process of their reproduction (they are all from one female)?

I understand that the males won't arrive right away. A day, two, three, and who knows if they'll be in their chosen place at all. How do I choose a location? They'll probably bake on the lawn in the hot sun. What plants should I pay attention to? How do I identify a promising location?

Gennadich! Post photos of such a cage? Just out of curiosity. I understand that the males won't arrive right away. A day, two, three, and who knows if they'll be in their chosen place at all. How do I choose a location? They'll probably bake on the lawn in the hot sun. What plants should I pay attention to? How do I identify a promising location?

Good evening, day or night )) Who will read it when.
On August 13 of this year, they picked up Amorpha juglandis at the entrance
and thought to take it to the dacha. But... It turned out to be a female, left the offspring and flew away.. Well, more precisely, I released her, as she began to flutter violently )

Today my mother found a lot of caterpillars... I threw it out. But some people still stayed. 2 newly hatched eggs and 22 eggs.

I read what they eat. I brought them walnut leaves. Washed and dried.
They crawl on them, but they don't eat them!

What to do?

1 Yes ordinary bag made of blown fabric (gauze, mosquito net, tulle, etc.)
2 lure naturally where you think they fly the most
3 of course in the shade

I already wrote, give them poplar leaves, this is the poplar hawk moth Laothoe populi (Linnaeus, 1758)

Adhering to these conditions, two weeks ago a female wingless wave was placed in this way. She gave it to Gren. Still would now understand whether it is fertilized, whether it is worth waiting for the release of caterpillars.

I already wrote, give them poplar leaves, this is the poplar hawk moth Laothoe populi (Linnaeus, 1758)

Good afternoon. I found a moth moth caterpillar. Is it difficult to grow it to a butterfly yourself? I don't have any experience. Please advise me or tell me where to read about it.

And what, normally in napkins pupate? And other families (such as scoops)? And I'm offering everyone land

The easiest representative for growing this family.

But, in my experience, and the most "wormy". I took it three times in two different years and in two different places, but I never got butterflies, only flies. For comparison: I got three butterflies out of three caterpillars from death's head, and everything was fine with Podmarennikov, too.