Hi, Last year I decided to have a go at rearing Orange tips butterfly's. For them to make a pupa, I put some Blue Tack in the container and then poked a short...
Hi all, It is curious that the Orange tip and other Pierids (at least the British species) generally suspend themselves with the cremaster and silk pad at the...
Hi Found two interesting ? macro moth larvae today - both new for me. The first was found under moss on an old poplar log. It's about 20mm long and I think is...
Hi Ben, Small Square-spot looks a good candidate for the first but I haven't seen one in recent years. Roy thinks that at this stage it could be any of the...
Hi George, I would have said the Brick was the most likely - comparing them with the website pics. If you rear them through, the pupae of the two species are...
Hi Reg, Thanks for the info - interesting that the pupae are different, I'll certainly check that when they pupate. I'd be happy to send you some eggs in due...
Hi George, all I have now put close up pics of the Brick pupa (Agrochola circellaris) on the website at:- http://www.ukleps.org/PupaeScByFamGroups.html The...
Hi all, It is worth looking at large tufts of grass now and over the next few weeks. I have never found sweeping grass produces much (in the daytime at least)...
Hi all, I should have added:- To find the larger noctuid larvae look for a significant number of nibbled grass blades and for the Skippers etc. look for blades...
Hi There, Currently have a batch of Brown Hairstreak larvae on the go. Is there any truth in the rumour that they can be cannibalistic? Regards, Martyn Panes. ...
Hi all, I guess silence means that nobody else has heard of that rumour? I was out looking for an Orange-tip egg a few days ago - the first flower head I found...
Thanks - a friend of mine and fellow ent read it in a paper published by Peter Cribb to the AES back in the 1960s.... Anyway I have taken the precaution of...
Hi Just wondering if anyone has got any tips on distinguishing male and female Commas. I would like to breed them and have read that the females are more...
Hi Annabel and all, Its a bit late for you now but you can probably determine the sex of Commas at the pupal stage. It doesn't work for all butterflies but if ...
Hi all, We bred 3 Emperors (Saturnia pavonia) through from mid size larvae to pupa last year. These emerged this spring and the female was taken out and ...
Hi Andy, they should be hatching any day now. Mate of mine captured a female on 22/4 09, eggs hatched 2/5 and changed to 5th, yes 5th instar 17th, ie...
For larvae of species that feed on Dock is Great Water Dock a suitable substitute for Common Dock ? I have plenty of potted GWD which makes life easier than...
Hi all, There are some notes on rearing the Tigers at:- http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Breeding_UK-Leps/files/A2/ If anyone has any hints and tips that can...
If livestock is reared in a greenhouse subsequent stages may mature in advance of being in the wild. What are the likely consequences ? I appreciate that this...
Has anyone any experience of larval interaction with aphid sugar excretion known popularly as "Honeydew";. Are leaves with it on them avoided,treated like any...
Hi there! I'm no expert, but I'd say the imagines you produce will simply be wasted in biological terms. Perhaps if you keep them and breed from them, you can...
