A number of days ago I found a Lobobunaea caterpillar. I placed it in a container with a decent amount of dirt, and it proceeded to bury itself to pupate.
The caterpillar:
It's housing:
Today I decided to check on it's progress.
It's rather large (unsurprisingly)... and active.
How should I be storing it? (Currently I have it in a toilet paper tube, in a jar, in a dark drawer.)
Wow that's a big boy ! Great video ! Can't wait to see it hatch.
I would just let him in the ground and put it in a high enough container for him to dry its wings properly. Don't play to much with the pupae, it should not be outside of the ground.
Wow that's a big boy ! Great video ! Can't wait to see it hatch.
I would just let him in the ground and put it in a high enough container for him to dry its wings properly. Don't play to much with the pupae, it should not be outside of the ground.
This is what I would have liked to do, unfortunately I'm flying to Congo in a month-and-a-half's time and I don't have room/weight allowance to carry around a container of dirt. The best I could probably do is fill the jar (around the pupa) with dirt.
I'm worried about this. I'll be traveling to Kenya between now and then, so that also complicates things. Some have told me it will take at least 2 months. If that's the case, then I have little to worry about. If it's anything shorter, I may run into trouble.
yes it is a female and probably Lobobunaea phaedusa. the pupa is not completely regular on the ventral side (then wings may be touched) emergence may occur after some weeks or some months (depending if it will enter into diapause), then you can't predict it prcisely
s'il n'y pas de solution c'est qu'il n'y a pas de problème ! akuna matata ....
