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10-09-2007, 06:29 PM
|  | Commander of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Boroughbridge near York - isn't the same as the Dales, but close enough!
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| | | Re: Elephant Hawk Moth Catterpillar
Oh I've been so worried! Gosh it's bloomin' hard work being a EHM mummy! 
Denzel hadn't moved for nearly 4 hrs this afternoon - thought he'd snuffed it  After my trip up the reservoir earlier I gathered some lovely dry soft moss and some dried grass and put them in his tank when I got back at 2.30. He wandered about for a bit then just stopped, but hadn't done anything, just stopped.
I'm so relieved as I've just seen him pulling bits of grass towards him - phew! 
You could have told me that caterpillars have naps!  |
22-09-2007, 04:09 PM
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| | | Re: Elephant Hawk Moth Catterpillar
It's been 2 weeks since I put Denzel in the garage and it seems he's done the business! 
I didn't touch him but gently scooped him off the soil with a tablespoon and he twitched!  He's now on some kitchen towel in a tupperware pot (lid just on) and back in the garage. Hafta wait till spring now....
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22-09-2007, 04:20 PM
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| | | Re: Elephant Hawk Moth Catterpillar
Cazzie, I think it would be better it you put a bit of soil or compost in the container together a few twigs and leaves. That would create the natural environment which could be important when the moth emerges. |
22-09-2007, 07:35 PM
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| | | Re: Elephant Hawk Moth Catterpillar
Erm well Lance (and I think Harry) said they'd kept theirs on kitchen towel/cardboard and before spring put in twigs etc for it to climb up onto when it emerges? I'll happily put it on some compost etc. if you think I should. The soil and leaves that were in the tank had little mold spores on it when I looked today, that's why I chucked it all out.
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25-08-2008, 11:20 AM
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| | | Re: Elephant Hawk Moth Catterpillar
I honestly just caught one in my garden, hes sat next to me in a little jar with paper on *air holes* - I was going to use kitchen roll but he looks like he could get out of it hehe
I live on a council estate and lack his favoured food,any ideas what I could possibly give it? I've tried 3 types of leaves to see if they interest him but so far nothing yet. Do I need soil in the bottom of the jar and do they drink too?  | | | |
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