Hi all, How many of you still use peat and other 'earthy' substitutes for Hawkmoth etc. larvae to pupate in? I got fed up several years ago with problems of ...
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Paul Talbot
paulinvc63
Aug 11, 2002 8:35 pm
Hi all This year I have been recording large numbers (up to 7 per night) of Ypsolopha.dentella (Honeysuckle Moth) in my garden trap. I assume this is because...
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Reg Fry
bughunteruk
Aug 12, 2002 11:50 am
Hi Paul, sounds as if you have the opportunity to do some original work here - I cannot find any useful references either. Did your Small Elephant Hawkmoth...
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Paul Talbot
paulinvc63
Aug 12, 2002 6:25 pm
Hi Reg No luck with the Small Elephant female I had caged up, she had either already laid her quota or had not yet mated. She didn't lay any eggs despite being...
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Reg Fry
bughunteruk
Aug 18, 2002 9:16 am
Hi all, There was a note on the AES forum some time ago asking whether there was any information published about the best nectar sources for butterflies (other...
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Neil Jones
euphydryasuk
Aug 18, 2002 6:01 pm
... Reg, I think it would be a good idea to post this on this list if you get a reply. The problem with these data is that people tend to repeat what other...
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Ian Kimber
ukmoths1
Sep 11, 2002 9:44 pm
Hi all, Apologies for cross-posting, but I've been approached by a company called Amulet films, who are planning to make a film involving moths, and are ...
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Reg Fry
bughunteruk
Sep 21, 2002 8:47 am
Hi all, Has anyone else bred either of these species this year? Having bred both many times before I expect to get a few Poplar Hawk adults emerging the same ...
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Paul Talbot
paulinvc63
Sep 21, 2002 11:49 am
Hi all I found a copy of the book by Friedrich " Breeding Butterflies and Moths, a practical handbook for British and European species", today in a second hand...
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dogdigger40
Sep 23, 2002 1:29 pm
Hi Everyone I have recently returned to Lepidoptera after many years and need some helpful advice about how to set up a small breeding sort of centre, mainly...
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dogdigger40
Sep 23, 2002 1:39 pm
Hi Everyone I need a bit of advice about breeding British Hawk Moths. I have access to a substatial brick built garage and just need advice about sizes of...
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Reg Fry
bughunteruk
Sep 24, 2002 9:38 am
Hi Allan/all I think everybody has their own favourite design of cages. I use a variety of sizes and types of plastic boxes for breeding small numbers of...
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pab999ulum
Nov 23, 2002 1:17 am
Some years ago I sleeved between over a hundred Jersey Tiger larvae on overwintering potted Ragwort with dried Beech leaves for shelter in a cold...
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Reg Fry
bughunteruk
Nov 24, 2002 9:13 am
Hi all, I havent come across anyone yet who has managed to overwinter the Jersey Tiger (E. quadripunctaria) and unlike the Garden Tiger (A. caja) and the Wood...
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Jeroen Voogd
acherontia2001
Nov 25, 2002 8:46 am
Hello All, I have had problems with overwintering tiger caterpillars, especially those which overwinter as a (full)grown caterpillar, like A. villica, R....
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Reg Fry
bughunteruk
Nov 25, 2002 11:44 am
H Jeroen/all There are some interesting differences between our experience of breeding these species in the UK and in the Netherlands. For example in the UK...
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Paul Talbot
paulinvc63
Nov 25, 2002 2:19 pm
<SNIP>don't like the argument (on UKmoths) that Cuckoos are to blame for their decline, Hi Reg /all I don't think anyone is blaming the decline of the Garden...
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Jeroen Voogd
acherontia2001
Nov 25, 2002 3:49 pm
Hello Reg, Paul, all, I also do not believe that the Cuckoo's are the main cause for the decline of Arctia caja. In the Netherlands Arctia caja also declines,...
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pab999ulum
Nov 25, 2002 9:56 pm
Foodplant preference could be due to leaf age.My A.caja ate Foxglove until there were only young leaves left which they would not eat.They would rather...
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pab999ulum
Nov 25, 2002 10:03 pm
Due to a freak accident by drowning in condensation in a plastic box only one of my Papilio machaon machaon larvae bought at Kempton Park reached pupation I...
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Reg Fry
bughunteruk
Nov 25, 2002 10:08 pm
Oh dear - finger trouble again, and yes I did mean the 1980s.... not the 1908s! From: "pab999ulum" <G.Best@...> Reply-To:...
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Reg Fry
bughunteruk
Nov 25, 2002 11:40 pm
I have had a real problem with Poplar Hawks (Laothoe populi) this year with three generations in all. I put about half the second generation pupae in the...
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Jeroen Voogd
acherontia2001
Nov 26, 2002 8:00 am
Hello all, Plants can produce all kind off chimicals as a reaction to stress, feeding is only one form off stress. In the case of overwintering tiger larvae...
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Reg Fry
bughunteruk
Nov 26, 2002 10:35 am
Hi Paul/all OK point accepted, but surely if Cuckoos were such major predators of the Garden Tiger it follows that they would have had an impact on the Garden ...
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pab999ulum
Nov 26, 2002 10:27 pm
From a Clouded Yellow (Colias croceus)captured in Septmber I have a second generation of larvae.To conserve my dwindling Horseshoe Vetch (Hippocrepis...
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pab999ulum
Nov 26, 2002 10:53 pm
In captivity we usually feed lepidoptera on Sugar or Honey but not Molasses.When we go "sugaring"; for moths we use a mixture of Molasses not Honey.Honey seems...
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Nick Greatorex-Davies
ngdceh
Nov 27, 2002 9:58 am
... <SNIP> Has anyone else tried overwintering croceus larvae ? Yes - only once - in 1983/84 (1983 was one of the 'Great Clouded Yellow Years'). I had...
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dogdigger40
Nov 27, 2002 3:46 pm
Hi Everyone One idea which I thought of is maybe, if someone in the know could post a few photos of the common foodplants(with a few examples of which species...
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Reg Fry
bughunteruk
Nov 28, 2002 10:19 am
Hi Allan/all I dont think its a wierd queston at all. Despite having some reasonably good handbooks on flowers/plants/trees I have often found it difficult to...
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Storey, M.W.
bioimages2000
Nov 28, 2002 10:34 am
... Hi Allan, BioImages website at http://www.bioimages.org.uk/ has loads of plant and tree pictures, especially leaf scans which show more detail than...
