I dont remember off the top of my head, but if you do a google search for it you will find your answer.
It is best to keep the food plant the same throughout a caterpillars life, often times they are very picky and wont change their diet.........
Which do you think they'd prefer... Juicy Fruit or Bazooka? :mellow: :lol:I use sweet gum, but they will feed on many other things. The adults do not feed.
h34r: What do they eat around here in the wild? Also, why do I come across so few luna moths?Just thought I should share that they are now over 2 inches long. They will down 5 two foot long branches thick with leaves in less than 12 hours.
I am feeding them Sweet Gum leaves (its a tree), but they have a long list of things that they will eat. It just so happens I have at least a dozen very large Sweet Gum trees in my yard. B) I never come across many luna moths, usually only 5-6 a year. They only live a few weeks as adults so most of their life they are either caterpillars or pupae.
I keep mine on a bouquet of leaves, when the leaves are gone, I replace them. B)
You could say that, since I have 55 lunas and several other ones (different sp.) I have to replace their leaves x2 a day.
Actually, them turning brown is a showing that they are in their pre-pupal stage. Basically they stop eating, begin to wander, look for a pupa site etc.
They still do this here, in the first generation where there are two a year (so its not always associated with overwintering)
