Janaki, breeding the eggs will not disturb them, in fact, you will protect them
from various parasites. If you feel that strongly about not disturbing nature,
then you can release the majority of what you breed in the wild, keeping,
naturally a few voucher specimens.
You need no expertise to breed insects: take a clean, deep plastic box, a
child's tiffin box or best, a bread box will do. Place the leaf with eggs in
the box and cover the box with an old chunni with a rubber band around the
edges of the box. Wait until the larvae emerge. Thereafter, supply them with
fresh leaves when needed, everyday or every 2 days.Clean the box as for any
little children.
Eventually they will pupate and then there is another period of waiting. Then,
one day, the chappie will emerge and you will have added your brick to the
edifice of Science......if you hae any questions, etc., please feel free to
ask. That's what this forum is all about!
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Thanks Peter for your responses.
Re: Breeding of the black pearl eggs, I am afraid I found them in the wild, and
I feel that to disturb what is naturally occuring is not quite ok (though,
often we do disturb inadvertently), especially when I do not have the
resources/expertise to take care of what comes out, and also allow what is
going to come out- for eg., maintaining the required ambient temperature for
the eggs to mature and hatch!
But I will check on the progress, the next time I visit the area!
Janaki Turaga
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>From: Peter Smetacek
>Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Black Pearl Eggs
>To: [email protected]
>Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 11:38 PM
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Why don't you breed them and see what comes out?
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>I found these eggs-which looked like a cluster of black pearls, on the leaf of
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>Would appreciate if someone could id them.
>Thanks
>Janaki Turaga
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