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peaches
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| Morbid wrote: | | peaches wrote: |
Ooh, did you get any pics? How long does this usually take to happen? |
Sorry no pictures..
What do you mean? How long...? |
How long does it take for them to completely cover a tree? time wise, days, weeks, months. - just curious. |
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Morbid
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:28 pm Post subject: |
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| peaches wrote: | | Morbid wrote: | | peaches wrote: |
Ooh, did you get any pics? How long does this usually take to happen? |
Sorry no pictures..
What do you mean? How long...? |
How long does it take for them to completely cover a tree? time wise, days, weeks, months. - just curious. |
Well.. The larvae hatches about when the treeīs leafīs opening up.. And they start eating right away. The clutches are about 60 eggs and there can be many, many clutches. In about 2-3 weeks the trees look like the ones on the picīs..
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 2:51 pm Post subject: |
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 My reps love caterpillars- why cant this happen here in the UK- preferably Cumbria !!!!
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| Posted: Thu Aug 17, 2006 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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So do mine.. But Iīm not sure if bird cherry (Prunus padus), is toxic or not.. So, I have not tried to feed my animals with the caterpillars.
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The fruits are certainly not toxic as they are edible to both humans and animals as for the foilage, I could find no information on that at all.
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| Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 12:25 am Post subject: |
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| lily-pad wrote: | The fruits are certainly not toxic as they are edible to both humans and animals as for the foilage, I could find no information on that at all.
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Then I will try next year.. to take both good pictures and caterpillars. If the phenomena occurs again. It is very different from year to year..
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| Posted: Sat Aug 19, 2006 9:31 am Post subject: |
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| Thanks for the info Morbid 2-3 weeks is not a great deal of time to cover a tree really - quite fascinating. |
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