Citheronia splendens/E. oslari

Thu Aug 31 09:30:23 EDT 2000

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Re: Citheronia splendens/E. oslariI tried for a splendens mating two =
weeks ago.Left a female luna in the cage as well.That was a mistake.In =
the morning the male splendens was hooked up with the luna, and the =
female splendens looked quite upset.Apparently the male splendens caught =
a wiff of the right pheromone,but grabbed the wrong girl.
Mike
  Chris Conlan <conlan at ADNC.COM> wrote in message =
news:200008260441.VAA15256 at barley.adnc.com...
  This is a very unlikely cross.  Since the two are sympatric it would =
have to be done by hand if it could even be done at all and I sincerely =
doubt the eggs would be fertile if it got that far.  Even if it got to =
the point of fertile eggs there is still so much that can go wrong =
(genetically speaking).  There is certainly no harm in trying (never say =
never) but I would not expect it to work.  It sure would be an odd =
looking critter if it did though!

  Chris

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