Caterpillar Setups > Open Bucket
Open Buckets techniques work best when you use them indoors and away from direct sunlight.
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Precis coenia coenia on host Plantago major
Buckeye caterpillars are feeding on cuttings of host plant Plantago major. Eggs were obtained from live females.
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Precis coenia coenia on host Plantago major
Closeup of earlier picture.
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Tall-Bladed Grasses feed many Hesperine Skipper Larvae
Bromus inermus (smoothe brome), is considered an invasive weed growing along canals and other agricultural areas. However, many species of grass-feeding skippers will accept this grass as a host plant. These species include Poanes taxiles, Poanes zabulon, Poanes hobomok, Atrytone logan, Atrytone arogos, Lerema accius, Lerodea eufala, Problema byssus, Ochlodes sylvanoides, Amblyscirtes vialis, Amblyscirtes fimbriata, Oarisima garita, Thymelicus lineola, etc.
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Papilio coloro caterpillars on Foeniculum vulgare
Desert swallowtail caterpillars feeding on fennel; an outstanding lab substititue for any machaon group swallowtail. In other words, if you grow fennel in your yard, you then can raise anise swallowtails (Papilio zelicaon), baird's swallowtails (Papilio machaon bairdi), eastern black swallowtails (Papilio polyxenes asterius), short-tailed swallowtails (Papilio brevicauda), and ozark swallowtails (Papilio joanae.)
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