Re: Susie
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:45 pm
Then I will be jolly suprised if they breed.David M wrote:What if they're all the same sex?
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Re: Susie
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 9:46 pm
Thanks, Guy.padfield wrote:It looks like continental swallowtail to me, too, Susie, hence my question. Perhaps they're easier to rear than British swallowtails, taking a much wider range of foodplants. And, as Gibster says, it would perhaps be inappropriate to sell British swallowtails willy nilly at an event like that, though I know British swallowtails are quite widely bred.
Guy
Re: Susie
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2011 10:46 pm
Me too.Susie wrote:Then I will be jolly suprised if they breed.David M wrote:What if they're all the same sex?
What will become of them then? Released to roam the countryside or lepidopteral house pets for the rest of their days?
Re: Susie
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:01 am
House pets. I wouldn't release them because (a) they may carry lurgies and (b) it would confuse the records of BC if someone recorded them as migrants.
Re: Susie
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 1:46 pm
Swallowtail number two has just hatched and I don't think number three is far behind
Re: Susie
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:04 pm
Susie probably made a typo:
Jack
I think you meant Bowles Mauve.feeding on buddliea in a vase
Jack
Re: Susie
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 3:08 pm
Nice of you to go out of your way to post about what you thought was my mistake in my diary but I think I know what I meant, thank you.Jack Harrison wrote:Susie probably made a typo:I think you meant Bowles Mauve.feeding on buddliea in a vase
Jack
It is photographed on bowles mauve but it didn't feed on it. It has been feeding on a buddliea called honeycomb.
Re: Susie
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 6:58 pm
When they're in your house, where do they roost?
Re: Susie
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 7:27 pm
Where ever they want within the confines of the kitchen and dining area. So far they have chosen to roost on the branches of the buddleia in the vase.
What's your point with these questions, David?
What's your point with these questions, David?
Re: Susie
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:20 pm
Just interested to know. I've never kept butterflies in the house.
Re: Susie
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:42 pm
Okey dokey. Well fire away if you have any more in that case. 
Re: Susie
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 9:16 pm
Think of their existance as being along the same lines as tropical butterflies being kept in a greenhouse. It's basically the same thing.
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Re: Susie
Posted: Tue Oct 04, 2011 10:15 pm
Here's a question: how do you stop the butterflies heading straight for the nearest bright window and battering themselves against the glass? My experience of butterflies indoors is that they invariably make straight for the light, regardless of nectary inducements to do otherwise.
Dave
Dave
Re: Susie
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:49 am
For some reason they haven't tried to do that, even on Monday when it was very sunny. Curious now I think of it. The flowers are right next to the window and they seem content to perch on that when not flying or the white curtain next to the window. If they do start battering themselves I do have netted containers they can go in.
Re: Susie
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 12:12 pm
Your own private tropical butterfly house eh Susie? Good for you. It makes a change from keeping land snails, cockroaches, scorpions or tarantulas. In fact it's no different from keeping any other insect or invertebrate in captivity or as a pet.
Fingers crossed you achieve a pairing.
Piers.
Fingers crossed you achieve a pairing.
Piers.
Re: Susie
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:28 pm
Have the males established any leks yet?
Re: Susie
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 7:51 pm
There is only one male and one female so far. He's a pathetic specimen in as much as he doesn't seem interested in mating. He spends most of his time sitting on the buddleia or feeding although at the moment he is sitting on the bottom of the ceiling light.
Re: Susie
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:01 pm
When they're not feeding, what do they do? Are they doing circuits of the room or just lazing about?
Re: Susie
Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2011 8:10 pm
Lazing about most of the time.
Re: Susie
Posted: Mon Oct 10, 2011 12:31 pm
Totally agree with Piers on this one!Piers wrote:Your own private tropical butterfly house eh Susie? Good for you. It makes a change from keeping land snails, cockroaches, scorpions or tarantulas. In fact it's no different from keeping any other insect or invertebrate in captivity or as a pet.
Fingers crossed you achieve a pairing.
Piers.
Good luck Susie. There is always a chance you've had a pairing without seeing it.