Could anyone identify this catapillar sitting on the seed pod of a vetch. http://tech.ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/Breeding_UK-Leps/photos/view/42cc? b=1 Many...
I found a Dot Moth Melanchra persicariae outside the door at the night lamp and kept it for a while to give me a better chance to determine the name. Today I...
Hi all, The Festoon (Apoda limacodes) is probably the most unusual species in all its early stages. The eggs are unusual - like a blob of jelly, the larvae...
I have reared a puss moth larva and it has now pupated, not on the handy branches I gave it, but between a leaf and the edge of the container. So I now have a...
Hi all, About a month ago, I asked about Orgyia Antiqua and the fact that they layed the eggs without a chance to mate. Well the eggs have hatched out. So it...
... they ... are ... Congratulations to you sir, I have found five catapillars of Orgyia antiqua and they have started pupating this past week so i'm hoping...
Thanks, John. When I found the first eight caterpillars they were on a beech hedge in the front garden. So I fed them on this. It was easy for me to keep...
Hi Dave Are you certain that the male was unable to mate with the female(s)? I ask this because we've raised literally hundreds of Vapourers (one of the...
Gary, This all happened more by accident than by design. So there is a possibility for error. I shall be doing the same as the other chap here, when the time...
Hi all, A friend recently found a load of caterpillars munching away at the leaves of his garden peas. He thought they were an unusually dark form of the Angle...
Hi some years ago I had some Garden Tigers which I think had no opportunity to mate but fertile eggs were laid.the cage netting was coarse so it was possible...
Hi, From the responses, It sounds like they are not asexual. It could always be that I had the same thing here, and a male moth did a mission impossible and ...
... always be ... impossible and ... container with ... Just an update on progress. Early on the weekend a female had emerged, by sunday morning she had laid...
Hi all, It is always worth a close look at any foodplant you bring in for your livestock. I have just spotted an Oak Nycteoline (Nycteola revayana) caterpillar...
Re: Foodplants. At present I'm rearing Lime Hawkmoth, who I started off on birch to their disgust and have gladly had daddy around their finger on lime, until...
Hi Reg Its a good idea to include the micros in all the sections of the website, as well as the macros. Whilst there are English names for all the micros they...
Hi Ben, Im not sure where the C. pronubana larva originally came from. I discovered it feeding under some wild thyme in a box containing a few Transparent...
Hi all, I have been looking for the nice green colour form of the Maple Prominent caterpillar - as illustrated in Porters handbook. I finally found one today...
I've been photographing leaf mines since June but just staching them away until there is time to try to identify them. I've found two different types of cases...
I've been photographing leaf mines since June but just staching them away until there is time to try to identify them. I've found two different types cases so...
Hi all, I found a Poplar Hawkmoth (Laothoe populi) egg at the beginning of August that had been 'stung' by a parasitic wasp. Some 6 or so wasps emerged...
Hello all, I have found the same thing many times, especially the eggs of Phalera bucephala seem to be heavily parasitised often. Recently I have found several...
Hi all, I found an interesting sawfly larva on Sloe a few days ago that I thought would be of interest to the group. I have also started a new folder for...
Hi all, I also meant to say that if you want to obtain Poplar Hawkmoths this year I found several small caterpillars yesterday (second brood I guess) on sallow...
Hello Jeroen, all I don't have any idea which family the populi egg wasps are yet - they are running around too quickly to see much detail and I dare not open...
... Latest update, the first female that had laid some eggs without mating and then was placed on windowsill and a mate appeared, the eggs from after mating...
I'm new to Yahoo! and quite new to caterpillars. Allow me to explain the circumstance briefly: On Sunday evening I crossed paths with the largest, most...
He's probably about to pupate. You don't often see many hawkmoth caterpillars until they start to wander away from their foodplant in search of suitable places...
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