Breeding Attacus atlas

You can feed them with the foliage of fruit trees such as apple, pear..., I would refuse a cage and keep them on open branches, but in principle you can make gauze sleeves on branches. Saturn's caterpillars need good ventilation and will crack at first, so it's better not to fool around with making a cage since it can be made easier.

Don't they need high humidity? No matter how tropical

This container is suitable for one caterpillar

A friend was feeding apple leaves. The caterpillars were kept singly - small ones in closed containers, with holes in the lid, the grown ones - on bouquets of shoots in open form. All 8 caterpillars grew and pupated. It's gone... two butterflies. The others couldn't leave the cocoon for some reason. Better get the pupae out of it. Keep at high humidity.

So do caterpillars need moisture?

The specified container for a small caterpillar is large. "Reduce" by 2-3 times. I don't know if it's worth growing a large one in it. Look in the Internet. A friend, as I have already written, grew such flowers in bouquets.

So do caterpillars need moisture?

Small caterpillars need moisture. I don't know about the big ones. She kept them at room humidity. They all pupated. But most of them didn't come out of their cocoons... Didn't have enough humidity when growing? Maybe. Check out the growing technique in the Internet by typing "rearing Attacus atlas"on Google. And then, without thinking, I offered the experience of a friend as universal. It may have been incorrect.

EXPERIMENTS ON CREATING A CULTURE
OF PEACOCK ATLAS (ATTACUS ATLAS)
IN THE MOSCOW ZOO
E.Yu. Tkacheva, M. V. Berezin, O. A. Tkachev, A. A. Zagorinsky

The incubation of eggs lasted 8 days. At first, the larvae were kept on
a mixed diet of lilac, willow, and poplar, as the most accessible
food plants suitable for atlas under our conditions. Since all the larvae
preferred lilac, they were subsequently transferred to feeding only this
type of food. At a temperature of +26-27°C and a relative humidity of about
60%, the larval development period was about 6 weeks, although
individual fluctuations in the development period were very strong. When the
larvae were kept in conditions of +20-22°C, although the development was slowed down, but
no subsequent diapause was observed, the obtained imagos did not deviate
from the norm and successfully gave tvo potoms.
In natural conditions, atlas larvae feed singly on the branches
of trees and shrubs, preferring the outer, well-blown parts
of the crown. Therefore, when keeping larvae, we created a loose bouquet
of forage plants that did not interfere with ventilation, and we aimed for
the lowest possible density of larval planting (1 3rd-instar larva per 2 liters
of cage volume, 1 5th-instar larva per 5-10 liters of cage volume).

When the larvae require high ventilation, a decrease in humidity
leads to rapid death of larvae of the 1st instar, so a
well-ventilated cage in
a room with a sufficiently high (60-70%) relative humidity can probably be considered optimal conditions.
The larvae were highly susceptible to diseases, the spread of which
did not depend on the temperature of the content and was provoked by increased
crowding and poor quality of the food plant. Even with
undetectable symptoms of the disease, larvae that came into contact with the dead
ones greatly slowed down the growth rate and often died at older
ages, often during and after molts.

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Visit Tkacheva and Berezin at the Moscow Zoo. The people are very friendly. They will tell you in detail how to grow atlases. And other types of butterflies. They don't keep secrets. Always feel free to meet colleagues, including beginners.

Who will let me go to Moscow alone at the age of 13?

Oh, I thought for some reason that you were from Moscow. Sorry. But you can write to them. Email address: insect_mzoo@cdt.ru. In the subject, specify: Berezina and Tkacheva. They will definitely respond.

Another good butterfly breeder: Anton Biryukov. Ruscolanicus@mail.ru. I am always ready to help my colleagues with advice.

Oh, I thought for some reason that you were from Moscow. Sorry.

Nothing terrible) with whom it does not happen)

you can write to them. Email address: insect_mzoo@cdt.ru. In the subject, specify: Berezina and Tkacheva. They will definitely respond.

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Write to Anton and he'll tell you exactly subscribe to what's on the forum!

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He already answered me

For atlas, humidity is not as critical as for Edwardsy, but it is still necessary for successful molting, and it is advisable to combine it with good ventilation. For example, you can do this -
http://www.tropicarium.ru/

How long does Atlas have a pupal stage?

The atlas pupa stage can last for more than a year if the pupa is in diapause. Imported pupae are usually diapausal. As a rule, they are displayed within 3 months. Normal pupae (adjustable and kept at high humidity and a temperature of 27 degrees) develop for 4 weeks.