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Birthday for some St. Lawrence Tiger Moths....

In the beginning of the month, I had witnessed a fairly uncommon female St. Lawrence Tiger Moth laying on an aster plant. She had picked a very dangerous spot, since the property owner was likely to destroy the plant. I felt they would be safest in my care. I rarely remove such a large group of eggs because I don't want them to die off, but to set the plant somewhere else would probably prove just as bad.

Today I returned from errands in town, and checked the enclosure for signs of the eggs hatching. And there they were! Teeny, tiny little larvae, barely moving. They are now eating their eggshells, and have fresh, (man-made) chemical-free dandelion greens and soft grass. I'm aware of some of the other foods listed on this site, but does anyone else have any experience with this species?

I will release most of them when they're around 3mm long, but I will certainly keep a few to watch the process.

I rarely see this species around here, maybe 1 individual a year. We have the Ornate species, but other than that we're pretty sparse. So I'd rather give them a better chance any way I can.


Female Laying Eggs.


Taken 20 minutes ago. Not that great of an image, but it's the best I could do! These are the new little babies.
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Contributed by Cassie Novak on 22 July, 2009 - 4:06pm

Much better to post images to ID Request
or right to the Tiger Moth page. In that venue they can be put into the guide, they can be used as thumbnails to inform another contributor, they can be used in articles or on guide pages. Here they are dead. No one can access them. No one can use them. They sit here, mostly unnoticed - we found them on page two of the General Forums! They'll stay here till someone deletes this forum topic. They can't even be found using the Search mechanism. Not to easy to figure out given the instructions you'll find, but ID Request (or Guide) for images, Forums for words.
… john and jane balaban, 25 July, 2009 - 9:52pm login or register to post comments

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