Hi Everyone and Peter!! I too think the same and fully agree with Peter. I would like to add into the rearing a butterfly process , plz correct me if i am wrong. After the individuals pupate , please keep a soft cloth , at the base of the container which holds the pupae , coz the butterfly drops 2-3 drops of liquid while emerging and some times its wings get wet in his own dropings. And the wings remain folded forever. My Castor could not fly coz of this :(.
Also talking about conservation , would like to share the incident. At my office premises , i noticed a Lime plant with the common mormon cats. There were so many cats , tat i gifted 2 to my frnds and reared 1. I wanted to gather all of them as i thght atleast these individuals had 95% chance to survive , but that was practically not feasible. Next day , when the site was revisited , to collect fresh leaves , i found no cats, and the security guard told me tat he had manually plucked them away :(.... But atleast 3 survived. Similarly 100's of lily moth cats were seen dead one day in my office premises , may be something was sprayed on them , as my cat also died on the next day for no reason. Arundhati... --- On Fri, 8/13/10, satyendra tiwari <[email protected]> wrote: From: satyendra tiwari <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Black Pearl Eggs To: [email protected] Date: Friday, August 13, 2010, 3:22 AM i fully agree with Peter. Since last few years we dont see as many caterpillars and butterflies in our garden as we use to do as this is only because the number of predators has increased. Birds feeds on Larvae and adults butterflies. So protecting them in breeding stage is actually helping them. satyendra K.Tiwari Wildlife Photographer, Naturalist & Tour Leader H.No 129, P.O.Tala. Distt Umaria M.P. India Pin code 484-661 Tel. No. 07627-265309 day time phone only --- On Thu, 12/8/10, Peter Smetacek <[email protected]> wrote: From: Peter Smetacek <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Black Pearl Eggs To: [email protected] Date: Thursday, 12 August, 2010, 5:22 PM 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! On Thu, 12 Aug 2010 16:53:05 +0530 wrote > 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 > >--- On Tue, 8/10/10, Peter Smetacek wrote: > >From: Peter Smetacek >Subject: Re: [ButterflyIndia] Black Pearl Eggs >To: ButterflyIndia@ yahoogroups. com >Date: Tuesday, August 10, 2010, 11:38 PM > > Why don't you breed them and see what comes out? > >On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 22:58:52 +0530 wrote >> > > > > > > > > > > >Hi all, >I found these eggs-which looked like a cluster of black pearls, on the leaf of >Calotropis procera plant. >Would appreciate if someone could id them. >Thanks >Janaki Turaga > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Enjoy
