Posts by Joopesmothman

    I´m of no help in regards to what times you should bring stuff out - but I am very curious what hybrids you are intending to create? I´ve contemplated Calosaturnia x Saturnia for a while now, but haven´t yet gotten a chance to do it.

    Unrelated to this post - but if you want better chances of catching mendocino, for example, you can use pheromone lures. All 3 Calosaturnia species come to walterorum lures.

    Larvae were only in the mail for 3 or 4 days. I've shipped larvae before with no issues - unsure what the problem is.

    Yes, I have seen Alex's ads - I bought some eggs from him, but they never arrived, not even the envelope.

    Hello, I recently received a number of L3/L4 Actias dubernardi in the mail. All arrived in good health, but the following day, 5 were dead. The next day, another 5 were dead.

    None of the dead ones vomited at all - just died, and after death, most corpses turned black within a few hours.

    Caterpillars are feeding fine on Pinus taeda, so I do not believe host is the issue. Does anyone know what the issue may be? At this point I only have 14 left, so need to get as many thru the larval stage as possible.

    Hello, I have some caterpillars of Gonometa postica feeding on Robinia. I will unfortunately not have hostplant available for the months they need to develop, so I am sending them to another friend in my country.

    How should I prepare them for shipping? Robinia dries out very quickly and easily, so I need a better method for shipping that. I am also wondering what would be best to ship Lasciocampid caterpillars.

    Please inform me of what I should do!

    Thank you,

    Jacob

    Hello, I have one female A. dulcinea cocoon left and no dulcinea males for it, but frequently encounter wild male luna at my light.

    How would I go about pairing a female dulcinea and a male luna? Would they pair on their own or will handpairing be needed?

    Regards,

    Jacob Hoopes

    Hello Jacob,

    Try pairing your hands like you would with Attacus species etc. also does. Do you know how that works? If not, search on Actias. I'll look for a link from YouTube and then send it back here. The link is to the hand pairing of Attacus Atlas, but it should work just as well with your type of Genoa. If you don't know exactly how to do it, then it's better to look at Actias.

    I hope I could help a little :smiling_face:

    Best regards

    Emil

    Ok this makes sense.

    What time at night is best to handpair them? I tried early this morning because the female was calling, but it proved ineffective, as the males did not open their claspers at all. It was already somewhat light outside.

    I have 1 Hyalophora gloveri female out, and 2 cecropia males.

    I would like to try and breed them to create a hybrid. Last night I set them in a cage outside, and they did not pair naturally. How should I go about pairing them?

    The female hatched yesterday, and the males 2 days ago (they have been in the fridge though), so I don't have very long to do this.

    Hello,

    I have a great interest in collecting specimens, and do so frequently.

    I also keep live insects, in particular moths.

    My specimen collection is sealed and airtight, but on occasion, pests get in and eat the specimens. I usually kill off the pests by putting the boxes in the freezer for a month or so, but I am wondering if there is a chemical way to kill these pests, and keep them from coming back?

    Many of my living insects are stored in the same room as the specimens, so that adds an extra layer to it.

    How can I keep the specimens safe while also keeping my living animals safe?

    Regards,

    Jacob

    Use a ventilated cage to start with. I've raised luna indoors in a large cage before, using sweet gum and all survived.

    It's up to individuals, and I realize many people use plastic boxes for larva with success, but to me, it is an unatural

    method. Perhaps if you need high humidity, that's one thing, but not for temperate species.

    Frankly, I don't understand the box method at all, I use cages with cut branches in water, with the larva prevented

    from drowning by what ever will work.

    Good point. I mainly used the box method because it seems to work for other people, but the caterpillars don't start out in a box in the wild, and do just fine.

    Alright. This is the 4th time I've tried rearing Actias luna, and it always goes really well until the middle of the 3rd instar. I notice that there is disease when it is too late. I am always just a few days off from putting them in the ventilated cage at the right time, but never exact, so they always end up dying. is there any way to predict the disease?

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    Jacob

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