Gulf Fritillary Pupates-Emerges Time Lapse

This sequence shows two parts of a Gulf Fritillary butterfly's life cycle in time lapse; larva morphing into pupa (pupation), and the adult emerging from the pupa (eclosion). The music is "Induction" (unreleased mutant version) from the Silicon Landscape CD by TECHNICIAN. Complete artist discography and huge butterfly/moth site at HTTP://www.jcmdi.com/index.html ...Hi-Res version of this video is available on DVD. Visit http://technician.jcmdi.com/lepdvd01/lepdvd01.html for more info.

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[TRohr]

Do you raise Gulf Fritillary? I recently found a frozen caterpillar outside, resuscitated it, but it's not doing too well.... I would like to raise Gulf Fritillary, but it's almost winter. I planned on growing some Passion Vine in a small indoor greenhouse/ vivarium, and then I wanted to order Fritillary eggs.

I was wondering- do they readily mate? Eggs are very expensive, and I would like to be assured that I wont have to buy them twice, three times, four times, etc.

[jcmegabyte]

I have raised them a few times, having collected the eggs/caterpillars on Passionvine.

If you have Gulf Frits in your area, just put your Passionvine plants outside in the summer when they are flying, and let the females bring the eggs to you!

Captive breeding is tricky. They may be able to mate and complete their life cycle in a large, open-air aviary, but you will need to introduce new genes periodically to prevent inbreeding, or your population will eventually get weak and die-off.

[lemonlime05]

I just caught one from my garden, they seem to like my zinnia flowers, my zinnias are about four feet high. I love the silver it has

[jcmegabyte]

They're pretty cool bugs. If you have some Passionvine around, you can easily find the caterpillars of this species, too, and rear some. :-)

[Maymona13]

Does that hurt?

[jcmegabyte]

I wondered that, myself. Seems like a pretty serious physical event, but I don't know if they can feel pain or not. Hard to tell with bugs One thing for sure - if they DON'T do it, they'll die. =)

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[TRohr]

Thanks for the quick reply. It turns out that only Monarchs, Painted Ladys, American Ladys, and Red Admirals are allowed to be shipped into my state. I'm very disappointed. On the flip side I wouldn't mind getting a good crop of healthy milkweed going in the backyard to start bringing in Monarchs. I have a packet of frost-hardy milkweed seeds on the way. Hoping to get an indoor deal going in a bit, and then move it all outside when it heats up.

[lemonlime05]

SO YOU LIKE BUGS?

[rednewblack]

this is disgusting