My Luna Moths

[agent A]

Mine still have not emerged and I'm starting to get a little worried that they are never going to I'm hoping that when I wake up there will be some Luna Moths waiting!

Maybe yours are going to overwinter. Anyway I have 16 cocoons, and no more caterpilars. 5 pupae so far! Yahoo!!

 

[ABbuggin]

Maybe yours are going to overwinter.

Not this early.

 

[agent A]

Not this early.

true.

 

[ABbuggin]

They just keep on mating........

Probably my 15th pair lol (I've released all the mated females except for a few otherwise I would become quickly overwhelmed!)

 

[d17oug18]

i guess wood isnt the best way to keep them, the male has gone crazy every night and now most of his wings have been torn apart, i feel so bad. There isnt much i can do though =/

 

[mantidsaresweet]

Some of them move around but i have just left them alone for awhile hoping they will emerge.

I thought that they were going to stop moving 3-7 days prior to emerging.

Oh and all 5 are still in there

 

[d17oug18]

oh ya mine are emerged and the only male i guess is dying of old age because he acting wierd and the wood bars are cutting his wings apart. while the females are all normal lol

 

[d17oug18]

took some pic just after emerging this is the first moth that came and it was a female.

 

[ABbuggin]

Good job. You do realize that lunas dont even exist (aside from yours) in California. :lol:

 

[d17oug18]

well im glad i didnt let them free then lol, a few more days and ill feed them to my mantids =)

 

[ABbuggin]

well im glad i didnt let them free then lol, a few more days and ill feed them to my mantids =)

Even if they did get set free, they wouldn't survive.

 

[d17oug18]

they probably couldnt make it to a sweetgum tree from my house lol even if they liad eggs somewhere the babies would die having no food around.

 

[ABbuggin]

You were using sweet gum from nurseries right? How did you get them to give you so much? :lol:

 

[d17oug18]

lol i only had 5 cats, they had huge trees which would sprout lil leaves at the bottom and they said i could have that, now that im about to have 50 cats lol will see if there so giving. lol

 

[ABbuggin]

lol i only had 5 cats, they had huge trees which would sprout lil leaves at the bottom and they said i could have that, now that im about to have 50 cats lol will see if there so giving. lol

You should feed most of the luna catts to your mantids and get some hickory horned devils. B)

 

[mantidsaresweet]

Finally a Luna Moth emerged

:lol: I will try and get pics up later!!!

 

[ABbuggin]

Glad one finally emerged for ya.

 

[ABbuggin]

Well I forgot to harvest some eggs, but today I was reminded that I never did.......

I now have a 4th generation. :lol: :lol:

 

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Small nymph food?? :lol: or they poison?

 

[ABbuggin]

Small nymph food?? :lol: or they poison?

They are not poisonous.