Artifical foods

ewout1990

Hello everybody who reads this

After some searching on the internet and books, I tried to figure out if there is an way to feed caterpillars with artificial foods, like in the way you can do this for silkworms (Bombyx mori).

Apparently a second species of moth can also be reared on a different artificial food, that been the Tabaco hornworm (Manduca sexta).

What I noticed is that for the silkworms it said they use dried mulberry leaves for this kind of food.

While for the hornworm they speak of no such thing as dried leaves in the chow (the artificial food).

It is very hard to find the ingredients of this food. Although with some searching you can find some for the silkworms. But it usually just contains water, dried mulberry leaves and some powder made of corn. I find it a bit difficult to believe that this is it.

I did found a recipe witch was made out of white beans, agar agar, water and more ingredient’s (I add it as a picture)

My biggest question is now, does anyone have experience with artificial feeds? Recipe’s?

And so yes, for witch species??

Friendly regards Ewout!

Rudi

Hi Ewout,

on ACTIAS there are some discussions about these theme.
Two of them you can find here; maybe you could use the google translator.

Rezept für Kunstfutter zur Sphingidenzucht

Breeding Acherontia atropos on artificial diet

Regards
Rudi

Toja

Zitat von Rudi

Hi Ewout,
on ACTIAS there are some discussions about these theme.
Two of them you can find here; maybe you could use the google translator.
Rezept für Kunstfutter zur Sphingidenzucht
Breeding Acherontia atropos on artificial diet
Regards
Rudi

Moin Rudi,
kann man das Kunstfutter auch für Actias luna nutzen? Hast du da Erfahrung mit?

Gruß
Toja

Schwammerl

Hello to all,

I make this semi artificial food with the recipe of Boppree since years for myself.

It works very good for all Arctiids, Syntomids and polyphagus Noctuids.

I had never been successful with Sphingids, Saturnids or Lasiocampids.
Some people mix dried leaves of the foodplant in the diet and say it works with other spezies.
Maybe, but I never had success with this.
One breeder from the east of Europe feeds his Sphingids successflully with an other artificial diet, I never tried it.

Regards
Dietmar

xFuchs

Hallo Dietmar,

bei welchen Saturniidae hast du das Kunstfutter getestet?

Dominik

Rudi

Zitat von Toja

Moin Rudi,
kann man das Kunstfutter auch für Actias luna nutzen? Hast du da Erfahrung mit?

Moin,

I don´t know, sorry.

Regards
Rudi

Hikari

Zitat von ewout1990

It is very hard to find the ingredients of this food. Although with some searching you can find some for the silkworms. But it usually just contains water, dried mulberry leaves and some powder made of corn. I find it a bit difficult to believe that this is it.

I did found a recipe witch was made out of white beans, agar agar, water and more ingredient’s (I add it as a picture)

I raised silkworms/Bombyx mori on artificial chow since October over the winter (now they get leaves ofc) and even found a very simple receip that I tried out with the last few leaves I could collect:
Dry mulberry leaves & soy flour - 1 part leaves to 2 parts flour, so for example I have 100g mashed up dry leaves and 200g soy flour. Then I mix water to it and done - yes, that's it!

It's german but the receip is from here, you can see the explanation in pictures too:
Steckbrief - Sauriakeller - Reptilien aus Graz (Steiermark / Österreich)

Schwammerl

Hallo Dominik,
ich bin dir noch eine Antwort schuldig.
Ich habe das Kunstfutter allen möglichen Saturniden angeboten (pavonia, cynthia, pernyi..) .
Ich hatte doch einen Erfolg: Bombyx mori. Die haben von Anfang bis Ende Kunstfutter bekommen, ohne Ausfälle.

Servus
Dietmar

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