I have to ship some eggs and pupae to some customers but i am not really sure how since this is my first time doing it. If anyone could give me some tips on what to put them in and how to send them it would be greatly appreciated,.
Shipping eggs and cocoons
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It depends on the material, and how long it can stay in transit, and the destination, at least for choosing the method.
For ova, many people often use a simple envelope, with a small uncrushable tube of plastic, like airline, or I've used pieces
of an old writing pen, stuffed with tissue or cotton, some people use a plastic case for holding collectible coins, these are very thin
and sturdy. I try to keep ova from rolling around, but not everyone does it, I'm not sure if it matters.
Cocoons or pupa, can be layered in cotton, paper towels and put in a container, and then in the shipping box.
The thing we try to do, is to keep things from being crushed and from impacting each other or the container itself.
Also for ova, I've used a plastic straw, cut a small piece of cardboard, then cut a slit to hold the straw, and positioned dowels,
like wooden skewers along side to prevent crushing, some tape holds it all in place.
I don't think air supply is an issue, but I like to have some airholes in a container, and a lot of others must feel the same way,
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Hi,
for shipping pupae you can have a look here:
https://www.actias.de/gallery/album/534-puppen-verpacken/and never, really never put pupae directly in wool.
Direct contact between pupae and wool should be strictly avoided.Regards
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Thank you both rudi and Kevink. This really helped.
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Hello, Rudi,
You wrote for shipping pupae:
and never, really never put pupae directly in wool.
Direct contact between pupae and wool should be strictly avoided.My question: Why ? (Is here only meant wool or also cotton wool or both ? )
Best regards
Dieter -
Cotton wool and wool, Dieter.
In the end, everything about packaging material that gives off fine threads or other fine components.
However, threads that are slowly but surely pulled between the segments during the abdominal movements of the pupae and can easily cause fatal injuries are particularly dangerous. The damage to the animals themselves does not have to be immediately visible, but can only occur months after the injury due to this "constriction".Only this year I have lost some animals of a great specis shortly before the hatching, which arrived in the fall before packed in cotton wool with me. My own animals, on the other hand, hatched perfectly; in the case of cotton wool, the death and crippling rate was over 75%.
For this reason, I can only warn every sender of pupae to bring cotton / wool into direct contact with pupae. As a padding material wrapped in paper pupae that is not a problem.
Pictures of pupae lying in cotton wool, for example often with offers from Asia or Africa, are a real horror to me.
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Many thanks for the tip, Rudi. I wrote in English so that the above members can read it too.
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Thank you as well for the tip Rudi.
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The issue of cotton or wool, is a good point, I've received pupa that ended up with pieces of cotton in between the abdominal segments.
Now it seems obvious, I don't recall a mortality rate, and I'll take steps in the future to not have a chance of determining one.
I learn something new nearly every day.
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