Keeping and breeding butterflies

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22.08.2018 9:45, БутявкО-2

Friends, hello everyone!
Please give me some advice. The female swallowtail is full of eggs, can not lay independently because the middle and hind legs are damaged, bends the abdomen on the plant, but there is nothing to cling to and nothing comes out of it. I read somewhere that you can get eggs by pressing on the abdomen or something like that. Who knows please tell me what to do.

You can try to put the plant on the bottom of the box, so of course it will wither quickly, but the butterfly will be in constant contact with it. About pressing on the abdomen for the first time I hear, I'm afraid so much more likely to damage the butterfly. I have cocoonworms from the strain of laying eggs when I held them in my hands and they wriggled in an attempt to get out. This focus doesn't work for daytime users. Try to lay a carpet from a forage plant on the bottom of a wide box or jar and a butterfly on top, as in a bed.

22.08.2018 9:48, БутявкО-2

Knowledgeable breeders podskajiet please, when leaving the egg, the caterpillars of Actias artemis crawl and do not eat anything, and after a day they become sluggish and die without starting to eat. I gave them oak, rowan, and cherry trees. Someone chewed the cherry once, and that was the end of a dozen corpses. Who bred these butterflies, do they need bright light, what is the lower limit of acceptable temperature?
Humidity crowding, egg defects and other similar factors please do not mention, this option is excluded if the caterpillars are kept on the advice of the person who received these eggs in culture. He's all right, but I've got people dying. We live very far from each other, the weather is different, the plants are different. What could be the problem?

The post was edited by Butyavko-2 - 22.08.2018 09:51

26.08.2018 0:16, Yuri Babochkin

I am trying to breed attacus lorquini, the other day I managed to get a simultaneous exit from the pupae of males and females and make mating, I want to try to feed part on privet, part on mountain ash, the only fear is whether the caterpillars will have time to pupate before the leaves on the trees turn yellow and become unsuitable for food? I am located 500 km south of Moscow. Like I read, they spend ten days in the egg stage and a month and a half in the caterpillar stage? Are there people living in approximately the same part of Russia? Tell me, will I have time to feed the caterpillars? But even if I don't have time, at least I'll get some experience caring for caterpillars so that I can try again in the spring.
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