September 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM - Posts: DAPHNIS NERII, Title: Chat-Room
Mijn Daphinis nerri willen niet eten van de oleander die ik ze geef ze zijn me uit het ei gekomen en er zijn er vandaag al wat gestorven weet iemand wat er aan de hand is ?
DAPHNIS NERII
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September 13, 2025 at 10:05 AM - Posts: DAPHNIS NERII, Title: Chat-Room
Try ligustrum if they won't eat
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September 13, 2025 at 11:02 AM - Posts: DAPHNIS NERII, Title: Chat-Room
Moin,
die L1 von Daphnis nerii fressen beim Oleander ausschließlich weiche Triebspitzen, die dortigen weichen Blätter und Blüten.
Harte Oleanderblätter werden, wenn überhaupt, in größerem Umfang erst ab L4 gefressen.
Sehr gutes Ersatzfutter, neben Liguster, ist auch Vinca major. Nicht Vinca minor.
Gruß
Rudi
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September 13, 2025 at 11:25 AM - Posts: DAPHNIS NERII, Title: Chat-Room
Bei mir von Anfang an Ligustrum Ovalifolium...
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September 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM - Posts: DAPHNIS NERII, Title: Chat-Room
Rudi is absolutely right and I will illustrate this with some love pictures taken some hours ago and right now in Chania, Crete:
They first start chewing only the lower surface of the leaves, leaving a very typical window pattern and then start biting towards the mid rib.
Even the last instar prefer the fresh leaves at the end of a twig, leaving a characteristic pattern instead of stripping the whole branch as many other species do: -
September 13, 2025 at 5:50 PM - Posts: DAPHNIS NERII, Title: Chat-Room
Bonus: frass pellet of an L5 only consuming blossoms🤣
And this is the caterpillar, a rare copper color variant:
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