Black Witch foodplants

[Neil Reimer]

Bruce  Walsh <jbwalsh at u.arizona.edu> wrote in article
<199908202135.OAA15494 at trifid.u.arizona.edu>...
> Anyone out there with experience rearing Black Witch moths?  I'm in
> e-mail contact with someone in the US midwest who has a batch of eggs and
does
> not know what to feed them.  Various legumes have been tried, w/o
success.

They feed on monkeypod trees (Samanea saman), Cassia, and catsclaw in
Hawaii. These trees are all legumes.  The larvae feed at night and hide
during the day in the bark.

Neil