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I know that, but are there some plants that are the best species for this butterflys?

Thanks, does anyone know what species of plants I can feed the butterflies?

14: Morpho aega male
3: Dione Juno?

Hello everyone,

Does anyone know what species of plants I can feed the caterpillars of T. rhadamantus and what I can feed the grown butterfly?

Greetings Wessel Herrewijnen

I guess the one on picture 4 is Junonia almana asterie

Looks great!

Thanks Jens,
By accident I saw this picture on BugGuide.Net just today. But thank you very much.

Regards Wessel

Hi Franz,
Yes it's a female but she doesn't look like an A. patagoniensis female...

Regards Wessel Herrewijnen

Hello al,
I bought eggs of automeris patagoniensis, now the first cocoons are hatching. the first butterfly that hatched was a real A. patagoniensis, but this second butterfly that hatched only a few hours ago looks really different, it looks like it's an completely different species. Am I right?

I hope you can help me

Regards Wessel Herrewijnen

I guess it's Heliconius erato or melpomene

Regards Wessel Herrewijnen

Thanks man, it's quite strange but I always carefully clean the leaves and the 'cage'.'Next time I'll clean everything even better. Anyway, thanks for your help

Does really nobody knows what's wrong?
regards Wessel

Hi Maxi,
I think all these things are the same as with other Samia species. Most of the time these breedings are not very hard, the caterpillars accept lots of different species of trees like Ailanthus altissima for example. I bred two different Samia species and they just eat much and are not hard to keep. Egg-butterfly takes about 1,5 month.

I hope this helps
Regards Wessel Herrewijnen

Hello all,
When I was breeding Attacus atlas, Rotschildia aurota and Opodipthera eucalypti, there happened something strange... Suddenly there die some caterpillars. They just get 'soft' and then just fall on the ground en then there get strange brown-water out of the caterpilar... Does anybody know why this happens and how I can stop this?

I add a picture of a dying O. eucalypti caterpillar so you can use that picture as an example. I hope you can help.

Regards Wessel Herrewijnen

Hi,
A1 is when the butterfly is just completely perfect
A1/A1- is when there are some really really small 'repairs'
A1- is when there are a few little repairs
and A2 is when the butterfly is really damaged

There are lots of different interpretations of this but this is (I think) the most used one.

Regards Wessel

Hi Klow,
If you wanna know: I just spread this one
Morpho helena, it's not A1 but well, it's OK

Ok, thanks for the information

Which kind of Automeris?

Lina, do you have an other photo of the caterpillar? If you have a photo of the 'head', Than it's easier to find out which species it is...

Regards Wessel Herrewijnen

I think the one on picture 2 is Orthetrum brunneum so not Orthetrum albistylum but the picture isn't very clear so maybe do you have a better one? Here in Holland O. brunneum is very rare.

What's the color of the body?

Regards Wessel Herrewijnen