Why the change of foodplant?

Chelonia

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Posts: 31

First Name: Guilherme

Country: Portugal

Sunday, January 9th 2011, 12:37pm

Why the change of foodplant?

hello
I have a doubt, have read the forum here that you guys use various types of plants depending on the larval stage

example: Ligustrum L1 and L2 and L3 and L4 prunes

the nutritional value is different for each stage?

thanks

sorry my ingles

Kumo

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Posts: 193

First Name: Lorenzo

Country: Italy

Sunday, January 9th 2011, 1:07pm

Sometimes switching foodplant is needed because of some problems related to a specifical plant. For example, as you could see in the discussion "samias died", I told you that I had some troubles with Prunus laurocerasus so I switched to Ligustrum. Some breeders state that it is better to switch during the L3, when switching foodplant is not too difficult. Also if you notice that you don't have enough food to rear larvae on the same plant, you could try to switch to another known foodplant of the species.