protecting condition of gravid female?

[Chris Conlan]

Any attempt to restrain the female can sometimes have the side effect of 
reducing the number of eggs laid.  However, I have had pretty good luck just
putting them in a glassine envelope alive and allowing them to lay in the
envelope until they expire.  If no eggs are laid after a night or two you
may want to put her in a bag if she is still alive.  Also, you will have
better luck getting them to lay in an envelope if they are still relatively
full of eggs.  If she was fairly laid out when you caught her chances are
not as good that she will lay anything if highly restrained.  Good luck and
I hope this helped.

Chris

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From: Ryan <rvandermoor at shaw.ca>
To: LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu
Cc: TILS-leps-talk at yahoogroups.com
Subject: protecting condition of gravid female?
Date: Tue, Jun 4, 2002, 4:06 AM


Hey there everyone! I have a bit of a dilemma on my hands here... on a
recent trip we managed to get a gravid female Hyalophora euryalus and hope
to rear some larva. In the past we have put gravid moths in a brown paper
bag, and let her lay her eggs all inside the bag. This system seems to have
worked fairly well, with one exception.... the poor female usually is quite
battered by the time shes done. We would like to keep her in good shape...
but are a little stumped on how to go about this... I'm attempting to
restrain her from flapping her wings... but would like any comments, ideas
or techniques. You can see my current method here
www.bugboy.ca/restrained.html


Thanks in advance,

Ryan Vandermoor
Vancouver, Canada
rvandermoor at shaw.ca




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