Epicallia villica Linnaeus, 1758

29.06.2016 0:27, Maria Pozdnova

Thank you very much to all who responded! The program was some kind of import, I haven't found the exact name yet,but I'll look for it. I'll also try to find a suitable caterpillar...

23.06.2016 23:00, Vasiliy Feoktistov

And some types..... For example Lemonia taraxaci so they are called: "Dandelion" This is eloquently indicated by the Latin species name of the butterfly: "Taraxaci - > Taraxacum":))) The caterpillars of many butterflies eat dandelion in fact - "Only on the road" ....... In particular, many bears sin by eating dandelion ) I really don't know what kind of program this is ((( In short: Try to feed, Maria, feel free if the dandelion is listed as a food plant. If the plant is not suitable for the caterpillar , it will still not eat it in most cases))

23.06.2016 17:13, Vasiliy Feoktistov Corrected data.

Wingspan: No formalized data → 55—68 mm. Flight time: No formalized data → , .

18.06.2016 3:38, Yuri Semejkin

Maria raised an interesting topic. Although I am not an expert, I will say the following. Not everything is so simple in this matter. Here is a site for forage plants http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/warp/food-plants-b.html Taraxacum is not included in the list. I looked it up in the DB definitions. In vol. 5., part 1., p. 525 there is a reference to dandelion. And in Vol. 5, part 3., p. 606 even the species Taraxacum officinale. But I am not sure about the reliability of these references, because entomologists are not botanists and sometimes in turn give references from other sources. Personally, I have never seen any caterpillars on dandelions. Probably many people who are engaged in photography have noticed that some flora of lepidopteran caterpillars are avoided, they are not found on plants. And on some it is possible that there are no caterpillars at all, not only butterflies, but in general. Perhaps on this basis, you can create more than one topic on the site....

18.06.2016 0:33, Maria Pozdnova

Dear fellow goose rearing specialists! Please confirm that dandelion is a food plant for caterpillars, and then recently in a popular science program there was information that the caterpillars do not eat dandelions because dandelion juice glues their mouth. Dandelion took 2nd place after acacia in developing protective properties against consumers. (Acacia tree fights giraffes)

21.05.2016 9:39, Konstantin Lyutov

his gusёnu found in late March on the pavement. Food in nature was not. dill fed home from the supermarket. later, when there was green on the outside, she finishes feeding nettles. Maybe it makes sense to add fennel and nettles in food plants?

01.03.2015 14:46, Shamil Murtazin

Only one photo in the description of the form was left ...

05.01.2012 0:51, Peter Khramov

And here the same question: how serious are the reasons for the transfer, because in the "Fauna", in the "Fauna" ...

03.02.2011 10:02, Evgeny Komarov

The range of species: Central and Southern Europe, South England, North-West Africa (Morocco, Tunisia), the European part of the USSR northward to Leningrad and Vyatka, south of Western Siberia (Kurgan), Crimea, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkey, the Middle East, Northwest and northern Iran, east to Shahkuha. By: V.V.Dubatolov - http://www-sbras.nsc.ru/win/elbib/atlas/Arctiidae/166.html

03.02.2011 9:59, Evgeny Komarov

View transferred from generation to generation Arctia Epicallia.