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Lime Hawkmoth Mimas tiliae
Extremely easy to rear on Lime or Elm. Other reported foodplants include Cherry, Alder, Birch, Oak, Hazel, Acer including Sycamore, Sorbus, Apple, Pear and Ash! In autumn the larvae will grow faster if kept warm.
The larvae do particularly well sleeved on growing foodplant but can be kept in plastic boxes or cages. Beautiful streamlined larvae. Larger larvae are often heavily marked with flame and scarlet spots and blotches. Very variable. They pupate underground. In captivity they will pupate amongst folds of cloth or absorbent tissue. Store pupae refrigerated for the winter. The moths normally emerge in May/June.
Privet Hawk Sphinx ligustri
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One of the largest Hawkmoths. Keep pupae cool for breeding next year.
The caterpillar becomes enormous and is characteristic of the name Sphinx moths, by its sphinx-like resting position. Adults emerge in June and July. They need nectar from the flowers of Privet, Valerian, Buddleia.
Larval foodplants: Privet, Lilac, Ash, also reportedly Spiraea, Viburnum opulus, and other Viburnums, Holly, Dogwood, Snowberry, Apple, Pear, Oleander, Leycesteria, Currant.
One generation in the year. Privet Hawks breed readily in a large cage with nectar and foodplant.
Willowherb Hawkmoth Proserpinus proserpina
SCARCE! Only a few pupae available.
This rather rare Hawkmoth is a gem, seldom encountered, though it lives throughout much of western and central Europe, eastwards into Russia.
The larva is rather like a grey form of Small Elephant Hawk. The foodplant is Rosebay Willowherb Epilobium, Evening Primrose Oenothera and Purple Loosetrife Lythrum. The pretty little green moth has prominent egg-yolk coloured hindwings. The normal flight period is June and July.
Elephant Hawk Dielephila elpenor
Store winter pupae refrigerated in a plastic box. In the emerging cage it is important to have the pupae moist but well drained. Please see the Pupae Nest on this website. The moths usually emerge in June and July.
Cage the moths with nectar flowers and springs of Willowherb – you do not see the pairings but fertile eggs are easily obtained.
An exceptionally pretty moth with amazing and characterful larvae, with eye-spots and probing “trunks”. Young larvae are green, later changing to charcoal black, with occasional rarities remaining green.
Larvae feed on Willowherbs, Fuschia, Creepers.
Highly recommended.
Elephant Hawk Dielephila elpenor
Store winter pupae refrigerated in a plastic box. In the emerging cage it is important to have the pupae moist but well drained. Please see the Pupae Nest on this website. The moths usually emerge in June and July.
Cage the moths with nectar flowers and springs of Willowherb – you do not see the pairings but fertile eggs are easily obtained.
An exceptionally pretty moth with amazing and characterful larvae, with eye-spots and probing “trunks”. Young larvae are green, later changing to charcoal black, with occasional rarities remaining green.
Larvae feed on Willowherbs, Fuschia, Creepers.
Highly recommended.
Bedstraw Hawk Hyles gallii
A rare visitor to Britain. Keep the pupae cool for winter. The moths emerge in June/July. Set up with nectar flowers and potted Bedstraw. The larvae are fast growing and eat a lot. They are boldly marked with colourful stripes and large round spots along the length of the body. There are usually two or more broods in the year.
Pine Arches Moth Panthea coenobita
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Very seldom offered. A Noctuid that has characteristics akin to the Tussocks. The caterpillar is beautifully coloured and patterned with tufts and tussocks of hair, giving it excellent camouflage on the twigs of its foodplants which are Pines Pinus, Spruces Abies and Larches Larix.
Coenobita is relatively unknown and few breeders have raised it. The species is found over many parts of Europe (excluding Britain) Spain and most of France. Its range extends to the Far East.
Giant Peacock Moth Saturnia pyri
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Europe's largest Moth! Larvae sleeved outside do well except in constant wet and cold weather. The large larva, with its apple green colouring and colourful spikey tubercles, is as handsome as the tropical Moon Moths.
The natural foodplants are Blackthorn and Hawthorn but they will often accept fruit trees such a Plum and Apple. Cocoons spun in summer produce moths in the following spring.
Giant Peacock Moth Saturnia pyri
Magnificent - Europe’s largest moth. Flies in May, pairs easily and lays prodigiously. Exotic looking larvae.
Rear the larvae in warm, dry conditions. They are very easy to rear in the first instars and extra care is needed to bring them through the final instars. They repay proper care, growing fast and changing colour.
The large larva is as handsome as the tropical Saturniidae and has much in common with Moon Moth larvae, but with sapphire blue tubercles. They do well on Blackthorn and Plum and will often feed on other fruit trees and Hawthorn, Willows, Alder and Birch.