deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas moths
Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothsI wish they'd all grow up - I cant stand the excitement - they are brill
Julie
“cockerels may crow but it's the hen that lays the egg." Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothsAre the others still pupating?
I didn't know they wriggled till we kept some at Playgroup (the boring white sort, I found the eggs on my cabbage plant). I remember as a child finding a pupa just hatching on the hedge on and watching it come out and harden off. Dance caller. http://mo-dance-caller.blogspot.co.uk/p/what-i-do.html
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Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas moths
yeah still pupating, should be any time now popped up to a blokes house a few miles from me last night to have a look at his polly tunnel where he keeps and breeds butterflies, came home with a load of spurge hawk moth eggs and about a dozen yellow swallowtail butterfly caterpillars oops ! [center]OCK LIKES TO PARTY !!!![/center]
Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothsthe atlas moth are now in their 4th instar (skin)
4 of the spurge hawk moth eggs have hatched and these are the yellow swallowtails, the one on the left is an instar (moult/skin) ahead of the other one [center]OCK LIKES TO PARTY !!!![/center]
Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothsDo these latest ones live any longer than the first ones, Ock?
Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothsthe very first ones, the deaths heads, can live for a couple of months if you keep feeding them honey, the second ones, the atlas, are 5 to 7 days, the spurge moths are only a week or so and the swallowtail butterflies are a couple of weeks I think
[center]OCK LIKES TO PARTY !!!![/center]
Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas moths[center]OCK LIKES TO PARTY !!!![/center]
Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothshere`s an update on my bugs
the swallowtails the spurge moths and the atlas moths, my big fat babies I don`t think the deaths heads are going to hatch till the spring now, they need a cold spell then for it to warm up again to trigger the hatching [center]OCK LIKES TO PARTY !!!![/center]
Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothsI am not sure how I would feel about handling such a humungous caterpillar! It may turn nasty
Helen xx
3 children, 3 grandchildren, 3 chooks, 3 fish, a shrimp that thinks its a prawn and a dappy dog. http://www.acountrygrandma.blogspot.com Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothsThe spurge moths are very pretty, aren't they?
Why is one of the atlas ones wearing a bonnet?
Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas moths
you talking about the first photo ? looks like it`s come from the little house on the prairie [center]OCK LIKES TO PARTY !!!![/center]
Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothsThey are amazing...who'd have thought they could be so beautiful?
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(¸.✰´¨(¸.✰ Manda Living our version of the Good Life with 1 dog (who feels like we're living with 4!), 1 cats, a few sheep and 11 chooks. Don't get your knickers in a knot..it solves nothing ~ just makes you walk funny Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothsUgly ducklings turning into beautiful swans.......
Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothstwo of the atlas caterpillars have started to turn into cocoons today
[center]OCK LIKES TO PARTY !!!![/center]
Re: deaths head hawk moth & giant atlas mothsHow long before they emerge?
Those cocoons look massive. Changing the subject a little, what is their poo like? I found a strange thing that I thought was possibly a turd on the path today, and when I went out later to feed the fish I spotted an elephant hawk moth caterpillar, then another, then another of the strange turds. Putting 2 and 2 together (2 no.2's *snigger*) I worked out they were caterpillar droppings! they have an interesting form to them. I did a google check and it seems I am right. Every pet/wildlife/animal forum I'm a member of discusses poo at some time or another. |
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