Since you've done life cycles, I don't need to tell you that rearing specimens is a lot of work, keeping containers clean and so on. I learned a few things that may or may not be documented elsewhere. The larvae will rarely or never be seen in normal garden conditions--they don't come out in daylight. They live between leaf buds when small and in rolled leaf edges when bigger. They also pupate in rolled leaf edges, and consequently the transition from larva to pupa takes place secretly unless a gardener goes around peeling back leaf edges.

Wasps and birds eat them.

I would have moved them myself, on seeing the ID confirmed, and not got so many e-mails.

Many people don't take care of their own images, so I tend to move them as soon as an ID comes up--especially moths, since we have so many hundreds of unidentified images--rather than waiting to see what happens. If this is a recurring problem for you, you might consider getting a Gmail account for BugGuide purposes. In Gmail, all messages with the same subject show up as a single line, so it's not a big deal if someone moves a dozen linked images to a new place in the guide.