If you want to enjoy life cycle a caterpillar - a doll - a butterfly, you can part the butterflies! Their magic transformation will happen directly in front of your eyes. So you will be able to make sure that in the nature everything is subject to change personally.
There are two ways as it is possible to breed butterflies: - to find caterpillars and to grow up from them butterflies; - to catch butterflies and to create them conditions for reproduction.
The second option includes also the first way.
Cultivation of butterflies: stage 1
So, you need 2 butterflies - a male and a female. To know differences between them, you should watch the pets. Males the most mobile and fly almost all the time, females quieter.
Make sure that where you support butterflies, favorable ambient temperature and also is enough food and the place. If everything is good, you will see pairing of couple of butterflies. It can take half an hour till 8 o'clock. Make sure that nothing will disturb animals anyway.
Cultivation of butterflies: stage 2
Almost at once after pairing the female will look for the place to lay eggs. She prefers to lay them on leaves of plants that to caterpillars was what to eat. Therefore at cultivation of butterflies in house conditions fresh leaves will be necessary for you. Then place these leaves together with eggs in a box where there has to be a warm and damp environment, but you watch that there was a good ventilation.
Very young caterpillars need more moisture, than the senior. Every day give them fresh leaves.
When caterpillars are born, they are extremely small also touch to them fingers or movement for them can be deadly. When caterpillars reach the last stage of development, they will try to find the suitable place for an okuklivaniye. As a rule, caterpillars move and try to find the good place much to make a cocoon. When you see this behavior, make sure of what you have rather free space for an okuklivaniye of all caterpillars. When you find a cocoon, carefully move it to a separate box without caterpillars. In a box it has to be spacious better that there was a small humidity, for this purpose moisten a napkin and put on a box bottom.
Cultivation of butterflies: stage 3
Doll - an intermediate stage between a caterpillar and a butterfly. Hang up cocoons on strings that it was convenient to butterflies to get out of the shelter then.
In a stage of dolls of a butterfly stay within several months therefore carefully you watch the ambient temperature and humidity.
Some species of butterflies are not eaten in general. Only their caterpillars eat, and such butterflies have no proboscis. It is easy to hold these types at home. Butterflies who eat, need nectar or sweet water and are able to drink. Nectar can be given in fresh flowers. But it is easier to make syrup, to dissolve sugar or honey in water in compliance of 7 parts of water and 1 part of sugar. Pour syrup in a cup and change every day.