Beiträge von Christiaan

Hi
Thank you all for your help!
I hope the pupae will hatch fine!
Regards
Christiaan

Hi
The pupae it is about are cagilo menon and atreus.
thanks for your answers!!
That was all I wanted to know.
Regards
Christiaan

Hi
I'm trying to delay the hatching of a few pupae.
I stored them in my ettic, the temp and hudmidity are ok, but there isn't any light.
My question is:
Can the pupae develop ok too, when there is no light?
Thanks in advance
Christiaan

Hi
Thanks for the info!!
Try to keep the male pupae at lower temprature.
Than they hatch+- at the same time!
Thanks
Christiaan

Hi Elfin
Did you get the eggs out of the woods of Borneo?
I think the best thing you can do is go in the Woods and collect many leaves from different plants.
Just look what they like.
I red that they eat many forest plants exept for herbaceous plants.
good luck
Christiaan

Hi
I have now 4 A. Dubernardi pupae, 1 male and 3 females.
My question is: can the male mate with 2 or maybe even 3 females?
Or does he get infertile after pairing once?
Thanks in advance
Christiaan

Hi
Thanks for your help,
I'll wait, I think they Will hatch coming friday.
Regards
Christiaan

Hi
I'm sorry for yet another question, I hope this is the last one
I have now for 2 days 2 half pupated caterpillars. Their head is still caterpillar, but their body is à pupae already.
They are still alive, because they move when I touch them carefully.
They hadn't made a cocoon.
The other caterpillars have made cocoons 2 weeks ago.
I want to hang the other cocoons, but I don't know if they are still prepupae.
Goes the development slower when a caterpillar doesn't spin a cocoon?
Why have they pupated only half?
Have they only pupated half because they haven't spun a cocoon?
And the most important, are the pupae in the cocoons half pupated too?
Regards
Christiaan

Hi
Thanks, that was all I wanted to know.
Regards
Christiaan

Hi
I'll feed the caterpillars pinus sylvestris.
I actually bought the cocoons, he (alex m) would send 3 females and 2 males,
so I am sure that I have 2 pairs at least.
Regards
Christiaan

Hi
I mean eggs I get by post, they are loose from any leaves.
When I put them in a petri dish, lays 50% of them upside-down.
Regards
Christiaan

Hi
I'm sorry for all those questions, but does somebody know if it matters that eggs lay upside-down?
Now I'm bussy for hours to lay all eggs upside-up, while I don't know if it matters.
Regards
Christiaan

Hi
Thanks!!!
What about the temp. and hudmidity ?
Regards
Christiaan

Hi
I have a few A. Dubernardi cocoons, wich will hatch soon.
I have some questions about mating them.
What is the perfect temp. And hudmidity ?
I red that a good mating cage is 50x50x70, is that ok?
Does someone have some other tips and tricks?
Thanks in advance
Christiaan

Hi
Yes, ofcurse, anything you like.

Hi
Thanks for your help!!
I have discovered that The hudmidity was too high indeed.
I'm sure that next time my eggs will hatch fine
Thanks
Christiaan

Hi
2 weeks ago, I ordered some attacus atlas eggs.
I put them in a closed petri dish in my climat closet ( temp. At day 27 c at night 19 c, hudmidity 70%).
At the bottem I laid a slightly misted piece of toiletpaper.
I opened the lit every day, and breath on it for a good hudmidity.
After 1,5 week The eggs started to get very little black spots on them.
The eggs didn't hatch. What did I do wrong?
Was there a to high hudmidity?
I'm only 14 years old, so all information is usefull.
Thanks

Christiaan.

Hi
I hope that you can see him now!
Otherwise I might be abel to describe him.
The egg was round and yellow, with a small brown dot at the top.
The caterpillar is Brown-black, but its back is white.
Just behind its head It has 2 hairy white horns pionting ahead.
It's overall slightly haired, but its head is bold and black.
It is a tropical caterpillar.
I found the eggs in a zoo, and because I know they destroy them if they find them (they get all their butterflies out of cocoons), did I decide to take them with me.

Thanks in advance
Christiaan

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