Did you spray them and then put them into a dark environment? The need to drink before they will start to eat.
That's my answer as well. Try the mist, I have also read that trimming leaf edges will entice them to eat, I haven't seen it work,but apparently someone had.
My experience, the dark doesn't matter, it'll get dark in the evening on it's own.
When I have had larva that need choices, I put them in with the various plants and let them choose.
today my first cecropias hatched and started immediatly with eating. I offered them leaves of my Cherrytree (prunus), wet from raining.
Thank you both!
Yes i had the leafs sprayed that i put the caterpillars on after.
Sadly the Only Cherry trees here are completely full and half way eaten of Erannis defoliaria, wich i also dont want to disturb.
I even changed their enclosure to 3 different versions, so the humidity varies. But also they just straight up refuse to eat. 5 of about 20 are only still alive (i found the smallest ammount of their poop)
My Actias Luna and Graellsia isabellae, just eat normal like im used to it.
Perhaps it's just bad luck and you've a bad breeding line. Sometimes all the caterpillars die and next year everything's perfect ... With the same methods.
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