protecting condition of gravid female?

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Re: protecting condition of gravid female?Chris has a good idea here! Additionally I have found that if you give the female a small ball of paper towel or tissue to "roll" they are more likely to lay in the glassine.

Mark Deering
Collections Manager and Curator of Butterflies
The Sophia Sachs Butterfly House
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Chris Conlan 
  To: rvandermoor at shaw.ca ; LEPS-L at lists.yale.edu 
  Cc: TILS-leps-talk at yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 2:36 PM
  Subject: Re: protecting condition of gravid female?


  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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