Buterfly larval food recipe

[Chris Conlan]

While this idea sounds great in theory you will wind up with a green mess
that molds faster than you can feed your larvae.  Buying pre-prepared diets
is a much easier way to go.  Another post mentioned Southland Products and
I'll second that recommendation.
 
Chris
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>From: "Cris Guppy & Aud Fischer" <cguppy at quesnelbc.com>
>To: <LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu>
>Subject: Re: Buterfly larval food recipe
>Date: Wed, Jul 7, 1999, 5:31 PM
>
 
>Try blenderizing the plants and mixing them with agar to gell them. Enough
>water would have to be added to the liquified plants to fit the agar recipe,
>the plant slurry would need to be brought to a boil, mix in the agar, and
>pour into a pan to cool. In theory you should end up with "brownies" that
>you can cut up and feed to the caterpillars. I have not tried it, but in
>theory it should work.
>