Cerura Vinula foodplant: Help!

    Hello, sorry it's my first time to ask something into the forum, so I just hope the section is correct!
    I got (from an Actias's user!) eggs of Cerura Vinula, but there's a problem now...a caterpillar is alredy born but where I live the principal foodplants, Willow and Poplar, are not in bloom yet, so I have no fresh leaves for caterpillar!
    Can someone of you tell me another plant in bloom in this periodm I can use?...which one?....or maybe just another solution!
    Thank you soooo much :winking_face:

  • ANZEIGE

    Hi Eddy.

    And for the next time you would buy some insects: don´t buy them if you don´t have the foodplant to breed them!
    Maybe Apple (Malus sp.) is a possible foodplant for vinula also.


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    Rudi

    Thank you for you answer!
    @ Rudi: Yes, I bought them because I was sure they would hatch in few weeks, not now...:(
    Anyway I found Salix, leaves are still so small and thin, but they eat them, so it's good....for the next week I will have good leaves...that's the reason why I bought, because in general I always waited 1-2 weeks for hatching :winking_face:

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    because in general I always waited 1-2 weeks for hatching

    oh yes, and they were offered one week ago and a few days before also. So it was clear, that they will hatching out now.

    Good luck with breeding them. :dafür:

    Rudi

    Yes of course you're right...I think we both just didn't think about this...and I though shipment would be faster...for both!
    Anyway today I found a great pland of Poplar with little thin leaves and now they eat very good...so I can say this time I was luck...here we have 14 degreeeees during the day....where Spring is for good leaves???:(
    Thank you guys for everything :winking_face:

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