Butterflies – the finest creations exciting imagination of people the ease and beauty. About them wrote verses, drew them on engravings, attributed them possession of magic. To wish to catch beauty for itself – one of properties of human nature. Therefore, let's look how most to breed butterflies.
It is required to you
- Containers, fodder plants, eggs of a butterfly.
Instruction
1. For a start it is necessary to get eggs of butterflies. Of course, it is possible to arm with the textbook on entomology and to carefully explore your garden site, but butterflies of egg hide very well. Or you can catch a butterfly in a net, lodge her at home and wait until she lays eggs.
2. After you caught a butterfly, it is necessary to put her in well lit container with branches of a fodder plant. To learn what plant is fodder for this species of a butterfly, address besides to the textbook on entomology. On a fodder plant your captive will also lay eggs.
3. When from eggs small caterpillars hatch, replace them in other container together with a fodder plant. Air vents do not need to be made as caterpillars from a lack of moisture can just dry. For the same reason you should not choose for them too big container. Put filter paper on a bottom, and it will extend excess moisture.
4. After caterpillars grew up, replace them in a spacious container. Put branches of a fodder plant in bank and roll up that polyethylene that caterpillars did not get to water – they sink almost instantly. Also it is worth lowering couple of branches on a container bottom that the fallen caterpillars could get on them upward.
5. Before an okuklivaniye of a caterpillar cease to eat and begin uneasy to behave. If you have caterpillars of a day butterfly, take care of that in a container there were enough branches on which dolls will be placed. Moths pupate in the earth so if you have them, fill a soil layer on a container bottom. Also wait for a miracle.