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05.02.2014 17:53, AlexIva

Here I want to tell you about the butterflies that I have bred this year, and at the same time participate in the discussion of the issue of breeding pavonias.
The summer collection of caterpillars was pulled out on December 22, and on New Year's Eve the first butterfly was hatched. As a matter of fact, I didn't have anything but pavonias for the whole of January, but they are quite enough. I bred pavonias for the second time, and the first time was successful, because in 2011 all the caterpillars died. I collected them in the Vladimir region, but I brought them out and fed them at the dacha in the Moscow region. I collected a total of 22 caterpillars, of which 19 pupated. From the moment of pupation of all and until December 22, the pupae lay quietly on the glazed loggia in a hatching box. The temperature did not drop below zero, I freed the pupae from all branches and leaves and put them on a layer of earth in a box. On the specified day, I pulled them out into the heat, and on the tenth day, the first male was already hatched. The pupae, all but one of them, were cocooned, I didn't touch them, I didn't prune them, I didn't do anything with them. And the pupa without a cocoon (the caterpillar did not finish building) was alive for a while, and then everything, apparently, something was broken. I have 18 pupae left. While they were still there and after the flight started, I sprayed all the boxes under the table with water once or twice a day (2 with pavonias and 2 with others). In the box, each pupa was accompanied by a dry raspberry stick, prepared from the summer (I fed them wild and garden raspberries and rose leaves). The butterfly crawled out of the chrysalis lying on the ground, crawled a little, climbed on a branch and calmly spread its wings. The result is that all those who got out fully spread their wings. True, one of them didn't have a sawyere on departure (the other one I foolishly broke off myself.) And in the end, I bred 14 pavonias, despite the fact that before that I caught all one female. By the way, out of 14 specimens, there are 5 males and 9 females, I wonder why? My version: I found mostly large caterpillars, and some of them are no longer in June, but in early July. And that's why I gathered more females than I should have, more than males. Wingspan: males: 42-46 mm; females: 53-63 mm. I think I've fed you enough. The remaining four will most likely not be displayed, although anything is possible...
And photos (I chose some, and so I took quite a lot of photos and videos):
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12.02.2014 12:04, vasiliy-feoktistov

I'll post it here, perhaps. After all, although the caterpillars were collected in the Vladimir region, they were fed in Zheleznodorozhny, on local forest raspberries (they refused to eat garden raspberries). Just an hour ago, the first male Saturnia pavonia was born . The caterpillar that formed it appears in this report dated June 20 2013: http://molbiol.ru/forums/index.php?showtop...dpost&p=1415121
Spring is just around the corner, comrades, although it's -20 degrees outside Dubak right now
Although I don't have such a home studio as Gennadich, I still took one photo
I would like to express my gratitude to Sasha Boldyrev (aka Sungaya ) for valuable recommendations on breeding
I forgot to write: the cocoon was moved from the balcony to the heat on January 22, 2014. Approx. it took a week.

A female pavonia has just come out of the Vladimir caterpillar collections (I got all the cocoons for breeding) The experiment succeeds perfectly.... Ugh-ugh-ugh
I have already told you enough about these fees here and therefore I will not repeat myself.
Here it is, krasava, drying out:
PS The method of breeding is specially shown: gauze (bandages, etc.) is hung on the wall of the insectarium (terrarium, which I now use for this case), to which cocoons are attached. And the whole thing is regularly sprayed (once a day) with water from a spray bottle for indoor plants.

Continuation: 2 more females in the morning (+ 2 males already in the spread did not take pictures). "The process has started"

UPD: 2 more females at 14: 50 Moscow time.
+1 male at 17: 15
+1 female at 18: 00
+1 female at 18: 50
Total of the day: 3 males and 6 females. Everything is in excellent condition, no defects.
It seems that there is no end to this.........

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14.03.2014 3:00, John-ST

Winter report first

Before the new year, apples were brought from the dacha, a couple of days later the final trophy of the past year appeared
25.12.2013
Cydia pomonella (Linnaeus 1758)
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The opening of the season, as in the past two years, can already be said traditionally, was a pet
17.01.2014
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At the very end of winter, on 27.03.2014, I took a walk with Malaya to the forest in the vicinity of Zheleznodorozhny in order to look for boros. We went to the site of a fire three years ago in a pine forest, which is a huge clearing littered with burnt pines, with several dozen single-standing withered trees and partially withered and withering along the edge of the clearing.
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Moskovka - Parus ater Linnaeus 1758
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Upon arrival at the site, they found a clearing that had been cleaned up to stumps and was worn out by equipment, with a warm car standing on the far outskirts, there was nothing like this in November. Apparently they are going to ponatykat the next dachas.

On the first pine tree, there was nothing but wintering spiders and the remains of dead bark beetles.
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Next was a shrunken spruce with ragweed and rotten larvae and dead bark beetles
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About a dozen pines, mercilessly peeled off by woodpeckers, did not bring anything new except for the next larvae and two adult ragweed

Rhagium (Rhagium) inquisitor Linnaeus 1758
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Finally, a dead, dilapidated boros and a pair of larvae were almost successfully found
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A small pine stump brings an unexpectedly good catch in the form of several Thanasimus femoralis, an adult Pytho depressus and a small ground beetle

[i]Pytho depressus [/i]Linnaeus 1767 in person
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Ground beetle, identified at a glance as Dromius (Dromius) fenestratus (Fabricius 1794)
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Finally, under the remains of the bark of another stripped pine tree, you can find "goal number one" in the amount of two pieces and as a bonus a thyroid gland and a small weevil

Boros schneideri (Panzer 1795)
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Ostoma ferruginea (Linnaeus 1758)
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weevil
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Further searches except for spiders, ragweed larvae and rotten things do not bring anything. It starts to freeze. Some fluff flies through the air, settling in an invisible coating on the bare branches of shrunken fir trees, flashing bright sparks in the slanting rays of the sun at a certain angle of view (what looks like white lumps on the branches in the photo is actually the glare of light refracted by fluff, the fluff itself, if you do not come close, is almost invisible, if you do not take a couple of steps to the side will be the usual shrunken Christmas trees)
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