Caterpillar Baby
how to keep baby caterpillar alive?
I have one of those butterfly pavilions for my girls and well i have about a hundred baby caterpillars. HELP? What the heck do i do to keep them alive. They are painted ladies and i bought a gerbera daisy plant at the store but they just keep dying left and right, And well I dont have any thistles around..LOL …WHAT TO DO?
Go to a local nursery or florist. Ask for Lavatera or other kind of malva or mallow, or hollyhock. Or sunflower plant. In any case it’s the leaves you (your little charges) want.
From http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/activities/printouts/paintedlady.shtml
Caterpillar (larva): The caterpillar eats continually for 5 to 10 days before it pupates. The yellow-green striped, purple to black caterpillar has long spines on each segment. The caterpillar is up to 1.25 inches (3 cm) long. It builds a silky, webbed nest as it feeds, usually eating thistle, mallow, malva, hollyhock, sunflower, or canola. As the larva grows, it sheds its skin (this is called molting). The time between sheddings is called an instar; each instar has slightly different coloring.
From http://nathistoc.bio.uci.edu/lepidopt/nymph/plady.htm
Larval Foodplants: Cheeseweed, (Malva spp.); thistles, Cirsium spp.; Dwarf Nettle (Urtica urens); lupine, Lupinus spp.; fiddleneck (Amsinckia spp.) and many other plants, particularly those belonging to the large plant family Compositae. The larvae, when present in large numbers, have also have been known to cause local damage to beans, artichokes and mint (Cooperative Economic Insect Report 23 (21): 307, 1973).
Also keep them at room temperature 22C to 25C, not too cold but away from excessive heat and out of windows or direct sunlight. Too much heat can kill them:
http://www.registrationsite.org/butterflies/raisingpaintedladies.pdf
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