Hi,
I´ve bred this species this year, here´s a picture of a male:
Hi,
where did you get eggs/pupae of this species?
Many thanks,
Lorenzo
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Many thanks for the support Christoph.
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Hi Christoph,
many thanks for your answer.
Could you tell me more of this species? I can't find anything on the web and I didn't find what Eryphanis polyxena eats.Regards,
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Hi all,
recently I've seen some Caligo spp. feeding on Cyperus spp. in a butterfly house.
I would know what species of Caligo is that?
Here I have a photo of one of them:
Many thanks,
Lorenzo -
All my Automeris naranja larvae pupated at sixth instar and I think only females can have another instar before pupating. It is known that females are bigger than males, so in some species, sometimes, you can have an additional instar and then pupation.
Regards,
Lorenzo -
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Yes, you can feed them with Eucalyptus gunnii, but I don't know if you can give them others Eucalyptus species.
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And it is true that Argema mimosae can be reared on walnut (Juglans regia)?
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They accepted Rubus, but I start off with Prunus laurocerasus.
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I found here on Actias that some people had success with this species feeding larvae on Rubus sp..
As you can see in the thread of Samia ricini, I don't think Prunus laurocerasus is a good foodplant idea if at the same time you use little containers like Petri dishes to rear early instar. When they will be older, if they accept it, then in a cage L3 to final instar will eat Prunus laurocerasus. -
Try raising humidty,and temp a little, are the petri dishes with lid? do they have tissue in them to climb on too /to hold onto etc?
I attached a photo.
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This photo has just been taken. I put 9 caterpillars in a container with Ligustrum vulgare.
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Hy Lorenzo.
Could you make some fotos of your living and died caterpillars?
Rudi
Hi,
I have no more died caterpillars now and I hope to not see others, so I attached a photo of living larvae.
Alles anzeigenHi!
Normally such toxines aren´t the problem. A lot of insects do have enzymes that can inactivate these toxines or they have the possibility to incorporate them and use them for their protection.
Maybe there is really a link between feeding plant and immunity. I have no further information.
What i know is, that adult moth which were not fed with their natural host plant have sometimes problems with copulation. In this case foreign plant-pheromones are the reason that they cannot build their own rigth pheromones. So male moth have problems to find the females, due to the wrong pheromones.
So, I try to feed my caterpillars with the correct host plant. Therefor you get the best quality of moth with the best fertility and a strong and powerful next generation. Another positve effect is, that the colours of the moth are the colours you can find in naturally found moth.I hope I could help you in any way!
Yours,
LukasCould I feed them with Ligustrum now or they will reject it?
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Two larvae died this night.
Yesterday I read that Prunus laurocerasus foliage is full of Hydrogen cyanide, which release cyanide.
Could it be the cause of the death of my larvae? So why a lot of people feed their larvae with P. laurocerasus without any problems? -
Hi Lukas,
thanks for your answer. They always seemed fine and didn't have diarrhea.
Larvae died in all containers, so it can be the foodplant, but I pick the leaves by more trees and carefully wash before put them into Petri dishes.Many thanks,
Lorenzo -
Dear breeders,
people knows that this is one of the easiest species to rear, but in this case they're giving me a lot of problems.
I've 21 larvae now, they hatched on January 27. A dozen caterpillars died for apparent no reason.
I keep these larvae of ricini in three Petri dishes, where the temperatures are 20-22°C. I don't give them much humidity.
The foodplant I use is Prunus laurocerasus, and they eat a lot.
What can be the problem?Many thanks,
Lorenzo -
And this is what they have eaten so far.
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Dear breeders,
I'm currently rearing Automeris naranja larvae. The eggs hatched on February 3 and I have 7 larvae now.
I've thought to feed them with Prunus laurocerasus. The temperatures are 20-22 ° C and I spray on several times during daytime. I keep them in a little Petri dish (see attached photo).
They ate a little in 3 days, so I was wondering if there are alternative plants for naranjas larvae, which, I know, takes a lot of time to develop. I haven't enough privet (Ligustrum) or evergreen oak (Quercus ilex), and Hibiscus was rejected immediately.
Otherwise, it would be possible to feed caterpillars of the first and second instar on Ligustrum vulgare, and then, the caterpillars of the third until the fifth instar, with Prunus laurocerasus?Many thanks,
Lorenzo -
Hi Kotaro,
this is a Gonimbrasia (Nudaurelia) krucki (Hering, 1930).
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I read it is possible to rear rhodonopneuma larvae on Rhus sp, but I never tried.
