Help me figure it out: what happens to the wine hawk moth pupa?

Yes, if the butterfly is one-zero problems... that's if there's a crowd of them. then it is yes...especially parnassians-they run for a long time and interfere with others. You can also put gauze on the walls and a paper napkin (moisten and hang it straightening). The main thing is that there are no gaps between the glass (wall) and the gauze-napkin. Otherwise, it will get in there, get stuck and fse.... From above, tighten the cage with tulle or gauze. The hawk moth will go up there and catch on. Don't use nafik sticks...

  
It should also be borne in mind that even with proper care, not all pupae turn into butterflies, some, unfortunately, die.

You are right: it is wrong to "dream too much" so that later it will not be hard and sad. You need to prepare for everything.

Thank you very much, Vladimir Vitalievich, for telling me so many useful and, most importantly, interesting things. THANK YOU.

Yes, if the butterfly is one-zero problems... that's if there's a crowd of them. then it is yes...especially parnassians-they run for a long time and interfere with others. You can also put gauze on the walls and a paper napkin (moisten and hang it straightening). The main thing is that there are no gaps between the glass (wall) and the gauze-napkin. Otherwise, it will get in there, get stuck and fse.... From above, tighten the cage with tulle or gauze. The hawk moth will go up there and catch on. Don't use nafik sticks...

Thank you for your help! I was about to hang up the gauze, but now that I read your message, I realized that I "screwed up". I will go to correct myself: I will fix the gauze more tightly )))

yes, you can generally cover the corrugated cardboard box with gauze from the inside....
although, I bring out the same parnassus individually (this is best) or in a large cage (two hoops 60cm. and between them 130 cm tulle on two zippers towards each other). It is also important how the bred butterflies behave. Csut, for example, immediately begins to fly as soon as it dries out a little. and interferes with the rest... but the swallowtail is much calmer...and at saturnius-piri, for example, it sits still, and some caligula sharyats are like mad.

This post was edited by Babochnik - 31.01.2009 15: 54

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HELPED ME! I HAVE THE MOST BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY ON EARTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HOW HAPPY I AM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ON SATURDAY, I PUT ON GAUZE, AND ON SUNDAY NIGHT-I GOT MY HAWK MOTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

thank you!!!

Happy for you....: -)
Good luck!

Yes! forgot....now do not forget to feed it...... 10% solution of honey or fructose.. unwrap the proboscis carefully with a needle and lower it into a drop of solution....

Yes! forgot....now do not forget to feed it...... 10% solution of honey or fructose.. carefully unwrap the proboscis with a needle and lower it into a drop of solution....

thank you. Without the help of everyone on this forum, I would have just killed him.
And I've got everything ready for the meal. Sponge soaked with a solution of honey. I wanted to find his proboscis so that, as you said, I could unwrap it with a needle and poke it, but it's so shvydky... I'm afraid I'll break my wings. Don't share your experience: how do you manage it? Maybe it all depends on the time of day?

Just gently take the breast in your hand..after a few times, he will already know what it is used for... chesslovo-butterflies are not fools........
Well, in general, there is a short but capacious guide by Elena Tkacheva "Butterflies in the home insectarium"... the brochure costs a lot of money - 60 rubles somewhere...I think so... for beginners, this is it...

Just gently take the breast in your hand..after a few times, he will already know what it is used for... chesslovo-butterflies are not fools........
Well, in general, there is a short but capacious guide by Elena Tkacheva "Butterflies in the home insectarium"... the brochure costs a lot of money - 60 rubles somewhere...I think so... for beginners, this is it...

But I can't find his proboscis. In nature, I saw (held in my hands) only a bedstraw hawk moth up close. It had a very large proboscis. And mine... I've already made macro portraits. I can't find the proboscis....
I will definitely buy the book, but it will be such a pity if my firstborn dies of starvation from my ignorance. Just like in the Moscow butterfly house, I also put fruit for him, maybe their juice will strengthen him?