The fat brown bear

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Тьерра, 06.04.2012 17:41

Hello everyone I am a person far from breeding insects, I have never been particularly interested in this. Yes, and I live in the countryside, here and without special breeding, butterfly flies bloom and smell... Recently there was one "but"=) The situation is as follows.
A couple of weeks ago, when I was returning home from work, I came across a furry caterpillar, briskly crawling right through the snow. I was surprised, the temperature is a deep minus, where does it come from? Well, I think, probably mixed up the seasons, it will freeze and look. I took the beauty home with me. I put it in a jar, with a rag on top to let the air pass through. I threw cabbage leaves, immediately wrapped beans, peas and sunflower seeds in a wet cloth, and prepared to sprout and plant them. I searched the Internet and realized that this is a representative of the Bears. The caterpillar crawled furiously for the rest of the day, and the next morning I found it at the top of the jar on a rag, in a cocoon of fine hairs. Again, after searching the Internet, I came to the conclusion that she would definitely spend a month or two in this state, and then you'll see and the butterfly will come out just in the summer days. And today... I come home from work, look in the jar, and there is a butterfly. Red-brown furry prelest. The bear is a fat brown bear, as Yandex suggested. But what should I do with this beauty now? What to feed? How do I maintain it? I don't know. I don't even know the basics of keeping butterflies in captivity. It seems to be too early to let out on the street, it's freezing all the same.
Help-advise, fellow experts. I really want the cute guy to live up to the warm days.

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07.04.2012 9:44, Entomon

Entomon, how long can you keep it in the refrigerator? How often to feed?
Brr, I don't even know what it's like to have a proboscis with a needle... and if I poke it the wrong way) And for what to fix, if not for the back? by the sides?
And this is just the first batch of questions =)

Well, not directly behind the sides, but through the wings, but carefully, so as not to damage them! At the expense of unwinding the proboscis, do not be afraid, the only thing that can be accidentally stratified (the proboscis is the fused and strongly elongated upper and lower jaws), if you get into the proboscis itself, you will feel that it is as if the needle has caught on something. If everything is normal, then you will not need to apply the slightest effort when unwinding the proboscis.
I don't know about you, Tierra, but I agree with vasiliy-feoktistov.

07.04.2012 14:50, Victor Titov

Tierra, put the bear in the refrigerator, and before feeding, take it out, and immediately transfer it to a thin layer of cotton wool soaked in a 10% solution of honey in water. Without wasting a minute, take the thinnest needle, and unwinding the proboscis with it, lower it onto the cotton wool. If it twitches, just fix it with your fingers (not for the "back"!!!). The photo below shows the location of the proboscis in moths:

You will forgive the dark "bug", but does Phragmatobia fuliginosa have an imago that feeds?
As for the content, I recommend Tierra to pay attention to the post URL #47 here at this link: http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtopic=355726

This post was edited by Dmitrich - 07.04.2012 14: 50

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29.02.2016 23:53, Тьерра

okoem, just put on the snow?
The caterpillar apparently came out of hibernation ahead of time, when there was a thaw, and ended up in the snow in an open space. But in our middle zone, the heat is still far away, cons are common, and there will probably be severe frosts. It's just that she can't survive on the street, it'll be worse than a refrigerator.
Now the caterpillar is back in hibernation, wakes up at most once a day, changes its position quite a bit. But I'm afraid it's like last time (start of this thread) it will one day rapidly pupate and hatch a butterfly. Then it's definitely certain death or life in the bank. So the task is to extend the caterpillar's hibernation as long as possible.
Is there a more reliable option than a refrigerator?

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01.03.2016 9:32, okoem

okoem, just put on the snow?
The caterpillar apparently came out of hibernation ahead of time, when there was a thaw, and ended up in the snow in an open space. But in our middle zone, the heat is still far away, cons are common, and there will probably be severe frosts. It's just that she can't survive on the street, it'll be worse than a refrigerator.

Is there a more reliable option than a refrigerator?

Put it where you found it. You can put it under the bark, as you have already been advised.
"She came out of hibernation ahead of time", "she can't survive on the street" - these are your assumptions. The caterpillar knows what it's doing. If she woke up, then she needed it.
The most reliable option is to take it back to nature.

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