Beetle larva

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Mially, 15.08.2006 9:25

Hello! Please help me find out which beetle larva is shown in the photo. Thank you in advance!

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15.08.2006 9:28, Dmitrii Musolin

This is not a larva of a beetle, but a scented woodworm butterfly (Cossus cossus).

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15.08.2006 9:34, Mially

Thank you very much! You've helped me a lot!
Can you tell me how to feed her? and what conditions should I create?
isn't it poisonous, by the way?"*)

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15.08.2006 10:34, Nilson

Somewhere on the forum there was already a discussion specifically on the woodworm...
Take a spacious jar, aquarium, or water bottle (large ones), put sand, moss or turf, a couple of pieces of bark, and a few branches so that the butterfly can climb up and hang its wings down. Moisten periodically, do not keep in the light, do not disturb and wait. The caterpillar is most likely preparing for pupation, so you don't need to feed. If you're lucky, a butterfly will come out by spring. In winter, you should probably put it on the balcony.

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15.08.2006 13:39, Mially

Thank you*) can I, not literate, one more question: I did everything on the advice of Nilson, the larva dug a bunch of holes in the ground, buried itself in them and did not move...is she going to stay up all winter? and do I need to put it on the balcony now? How can I check if she's dead?
thank you in advance!

15.08.2006 13:59, Nilson

I'll give you some advice here, but my caterpillar died in its chrysalis... It's not worth checking anything - definitely, in any case, at least be patient for a month, let the pupa form. On the balcony, probably, you can already now. However, in case of severe frosts, it is better to put it in the refrigerator.

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15.08.2006 18:02, sealor

As for the balcony, it is better to leave it on the balcony immediately, but not in a jar with a tightly closed lid, but in something wooden or cardboard, preferably in the shade. And you can not take it out on the balcony in winter, from a warm room immediately into the cold, then the pupa will surely die. In general, it seems to me that it is better to move the refrigerator to the lower shelf immediately after the street (on the balcony where the pupa was) will be stable approx. 10C heat.

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15.08.2006 18:05, Mially

thank you all for your tips! I'm just worried, she ran around the box so quickly, and then dug into the ground and now she doesn't climb out at all* (and I'm sitting here worrying about her*( I've just taken her out on the balcony...probably there and leave until severe frosts.
one of my questions wasn't answered here: is it not poisonous?
p. s. just that my husband on some forum read that a lot of people tried to get a butterfly out of the larva, and no one did it* (always died* (sad...

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15.08.2006 18:26, Bad Den

No, it's not poisonous.

15.08.2006 18:39, Mially

No, it's not poisonous.

Thank god!*)

16.08.2006 13:39, Nilson

Not poisonous, but the smell is probably smelled

by this goat ambergris and is famous.

16.08.2006 15:25, Dmitry Vlasov

Now many people do not perceive this smell...
It's written in old books. that by smell you can "smell" a tree inhabited by a woodworm for several meters. And we conducted an experiment-we gave students to smell the larva and many did not feel the smell or determined it as very weak.
Apparently, general mechanization and automatization weakened the" nose " of Homo sapiens.

16.08.2006 16:50, sealor

I can't see the trees at a distance, but I can feel them close to the holes. As for the cocoon, it actually exuded a fragrance so much that it was even slightly felt in the room! I've never found a larva, so I don't know.

16.08.2006 18:46, nimu

is that like her, too?
Do you need to feed her something? And then he rushes around the bank and is not going to bury himself to sleep yet. It seems like a long time before the cold weather, he won't starve to death?

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19.08.2006 19:21, RippeR

once a friend and I found a tree with maggots, put it in a box with a piece of bread (I don't remember exactly, but it looks like it was soaked). Guchenichki gnawed through it and pupated inside. When I last found it, I also put a piece, but she didn't look at it - she climbed into the ground and pupated

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14.09.2006 14:55, Асаф

What kind of friend did you find them with?!

Vo vo exactly!!!!!!!!!!!With me!!!!

14.09.2006 17:30, RippeR

Don't brag

26.09.2006 19:22, Apis

Under what conditions should the first-year Odorous Woodworm caterpillars hibernate, and do they need diapause?

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