Hello all, I have caught a female of Conistra rubiginea yesterday (only one female amongst 18 individuals)and I would like to breed this species. However in...
Hello Jeroen, I haven't bred it before and we don't usually get it in Essex (3 specimens seen in last couple of years). A friend of mine has reared it a couple...
Hello Reg, Thanks a lot for your response haven't had time to check Porter yet! In the Netherlands C. rubiginea is not common too, so I was quite happy when I...
Hi Jereon In "The Text Book of British Butterflies & Moths" by Newman and Leeds, Dotted Chestnut has this information;Oak, Apple, Plum and Dandelion, earthen...
Hello Jeroen, It is stated to be difficult to tell the sex of the adults with this species - how easy did you find this? Also a reminder to members of this...
Hello Reg, all, Noctuids are quite easy to separate the males and females. As the males have a hook (frenulum) linking the for- and hindwing together and...
Hello all, There is a lot of misunderstanding about Conistra rubiginea. And I do not trust literature to much I believe that most information in the books is...
At some point I'd like to study various butterfly species that feed on sallow - and obviously growing foodplant is best. However - I don't currently have any...
Hi Pete, I don't know about butterflies (not a lot of choice with only one resident species feeding on salix) but moths lay and the larvae feed without any ...
... feed ... the ... named "Kilmarnock" - ... to ... Hi Pete I'm still a novice but I currently have 4 Purple Emperor larvae that I am attempting to rear. I...
I obtained a mated couple of Diurnea fagella (a micro) the other night and kept them for 24 hours in the hope of some eggs. However the female did not oblige -...
Thanks Reg and Geoff, Garden Centres seem to be chock full of Salix caprea "Kilmarnock" at the moment - and I managed to get a really nice plant that is now...
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Hello all, At the moment I keep 5 adults of Consitra rubiginea in a flight cage with twigs of blackthorn and a sugar solution as food. It is nice to see that...
Hi all, HELP WANTED to improve the notes we have (copied below) in finding and breeding/rearing members of this family. Any comments on the notes produced so...
Hello all, I have trapped in the Netherlands last Friday, a very nice catch but low numbers of each species. One new species for me Orthosia opima and a very...
Those of you with a good memory might remember that I posted a message on this group in early November 2003, asking when the Convolvulus Hawk-moth pupa which...
Hello Jeroen/all I haven't been able to find anyone who has tried to obtain eggs from the Red-green Carpet (C. siterata) although it is generally accepted that...
Hello Reg, all I have obtained several eggs of Chloroclysta siterata. I kept also a female of Conistra erythrocephala in the same cage ass C. rubiginea, at the...
Last year for the first time a raised a complete clutch of P Brassicae for the first time and out of 26 larvae, 24 made it to pupae, 20 emerged last autumn, 1...
Hi Richard I think that one of the features of emergence is that males emerge slightly earlier than females and maybe this was made obvious by the chilly...
Interesting idea Shane - I believe that leafcutter bees also emerge males first from the 'tube' of cells - for which I assume there is a similar reason - I did...
I read somewhere once that it is simply to ensure that there is always a male about when a female emerges.One rarely finds a flying unfertilised female.A...
Hi Richard/all, This is a fascinating subject which you could also look at it from another angle - how does the insects built in clock tell them when it is...
..and the fact that this - (large white) - a 'common' even 'pest' species can still throw up these sorts of questions illustrates how much scope there is for...
Hi all, As you say Richard some new fact / occurrence comes up all the time - for example:- I was sent 4 small larvae of the White Satin moth (Leucoma salicis)...
Hi Reg, I think this isn't as rare as it may seem but people usually don't capture small larvae on the 1st or 2nd instars having a preference for larger larvae...
Hello Andy, I mixed crushed limestone in a patch of earth (about 6ft by 4ft) in a garden some 20 years ago. Half was seeded with Horeshoe Vetch H. comosa and...
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