Hi Reg, Those photos are great. Unusual to find them on Elm, but the silver y is highly polyphagous so perhaps it can even survive on an elm? regards charles...
Hi all hope someone can help me. I put this Puss Moth in what I am sure was a clean pot on NMN and overnight there were this egg like things, has anyone got...
Hi simon certainly look like its laid eggs to me . tony ... From: Simon Robson To: Breeding_UK-Leps@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 9:15 PM ...
Hi Tony thanks for the reply thought as much but the egg like things have me stumped, I am sure the pot was clean when the moth as put in but the shape of the...
http://www.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/notodontidae/stauropinae/cerura/vinula-3o.jpg link shows what are a close up of...
Hi all... Just started getting into moths and moth trapping. Last night trapped what appears to be a very 'pregnant' Miller Moth. Never seen the larvae before...
Hello again, All! I'm so appreciative of all the information and advice I received when I first posted this back in August last year. To catch you up, the...
Hallo, I am looking for pupae of Saturnia pavonia, possibly from the field or recent breeding,to buy (or eventually exchange). thank you!!! Rossella...
Hi Tony, all, Have just been and looked at a small aspen poplar I planted in a local hedgerow a couple of years ago - at least 10 Puss Moth eggs / larvae on...
Have really enjoyed the breeding programs l undertook last year and have been so pleased to release Eyed Hawks, Privet, Tiger moths, Cinnabar's Emperors' etc....
Dear Simon and all, I'm not sure this is a Puss Moth at all - at least not Cerura vinula. Both adult and eggs look closer to C.erminea to me, although this ...
Hi, the eggs and larvae look just like those i have found here in E Sussex and Kent and when i have reared them to adult turned out to be C vinula, Puss moth. ...
... vinula. ... should ... Hi Mark, The moth was caught in Jersey on NMN. The local expert who I pester too much has enough on his plate with his wife very...
Hi all, just a quick query. I managed to rear 12 Privet Hawks to pupation last year and they are soon to emerge, cases going soft and dark but still moving and...
I was excited to find a few Vapourer caterpillars yesterday. I've been looking for ages, know they'll fascinate my daughter as they grow. Question is, how good...
Hi Daisy You shouldn't have any probs changing the larvae over, ours are regularly switched between dog rose, hawthorn and bramble, and they devour them all...
Looking for a little sage advice and wondered if anyone in the group could help. I ordered, then cancelled, 10 Garden Tiger larvae, when I was subsequently...
Daisy, The answer is: yes they will switch. However, the female I picked up last year rejected EVERYTHING till I got to dog-rose! This year, her offspring are...
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can anybody confirm if this is a tussock caterpillar - caught feeding on Damson. Pic in Dave Hewsons Folder....
I have a number (an excessive number!) of Vapourer caterpillars from one pairing last autumn. Much as I have tried to distribute them among friends, contacts...