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GASP! you have an IO caterpillar! raise it or send it my way! lol.
I've always wanted to see an IO caterpillar/moth... want to raise it? I can tell you how... hopefully it's a male... and by the looks of the caterpillar it's going to pupate soon...
oh yeah... great plants too!
Quote[/b] (TheAlphaWolf @ Mar. 26 2005,8:36)]GASP! you have an IO caterpillar! raise it or send it my way! lol.
I've always wanted to see an IO caterpillar/moth... want to raise it? I can tell you how... hopefully it's a male... and by the looks of the caterpillar it's going to pupate soon...
oh yeah... great plants too!
Yes IO's are very cool! I've never seen one up around NY, but dang those are the coolest, along with the saddlebacks that feed on Pawpaws. Pussmoths are very neat too.
saddlebacks and pussmoths? naw... Lunas, cecropias, (trying to think of the name....) regal moth? are cooler.
did you mean the caterpillar or the moth?
and NOOOOOOOOOO! don't kill it/them!!!
Cecropias are very neat, I've had a few of the mammoth caterpillars before, fed them all the lilac leaves they could eat, I must say they were very healthy moths
I raised some (cecropias) from eggs but while they were in their sixth instar they got the "black death" as I call it (also most of my lunas and polyphemus) and only one survived to pupate... then it died :-/ (although 6 polyphemus did eclose
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