🕷Insect/Arachnid Raisers and Caretakers🦋

[GlicksChicks]

Raising and caring for different kinds of insects is a hobby you don't hear much about when you are not on Youtube. Let's change that!

This is a thread to talk about insects/arachnids you've cared for or you are still caring for. Even ones you want to care for.

This could be a good place to give tips/tricks with caring for these small creatures!

 

[GlicksChicks]

Not too long ago I was outside about to go to my chicken coop when I got distracted by a gorgeous Tiger Swallowtail. Probably the biggest and prettiest one I have seen. She had iridescent blue on the base of her wings that shimmered in the sun.

While watching her, I saw her land on a plum tree and put her butt to it. I walked close once she had moved on and saw that she had deposited and egg on a leaf! I marked the leaf with brightly colored thread and continued on my way to the coop.

On my way back to the house, I checked the tree again, and saw 2 more eggs, so I marked those as well.

Later in the day I went back out after seeing her around the tree multiple times after I went inside. She had deposited 6 more! That got me up to 9 eggs. They were all marked and I left them on the tree until I saw some little heads peeking out on the tip of the eggs, a sign that they are almost hatched.

Yesterday the first caterpillar hatched!

Raising caterpillars from eggs is something I have done for a while, but it was usually monarchs that I had raised. Now that I have moved across the country from where I used to live, I haven't seen any monarchs or their eggs.

I currently have 4 Black Swallowtail chrysalis as well. I did not raise them from eggs, I found them as caterpillars near my chicken coop.

 

[azurbanclucker]

@Cold-Blood may find this interesting when he's around.

 

[Somewhere_In_The_Clouds]

I used to have a leaf insect I hatched myself, I'd love to have some more at some point

 

[GlicksChicks]

I used to have a leaf insect I hatched myself, I'd love to have some more at some point

Leaf insects look so cool! How did you get the egg?

 

[Misfit_quail]

I own a female jumper regal

 

[GlicksChicks]

I own a female jumper regal

Those are gorgeous! I have owned wild jumpers before, and I have had one have babies as well!

 

[Misfit_quail]

Those are gorgeous! I have owned wild jumpers before, and I have had one have babies as well!

I’ve only ever had very large spiders before and honestly she makes me more jumpy than they ever did

 

[GlicksChicks]

I’ve only ever had very large spiders before and honestly she makes me more jumpy than they ever did

The biggest spider I have ever owned was a female fishing spider I had caught at my house. She ended up making an egg sac soon after I caught her and then she had hundreds of babies.

Smaller spiders can be more stressful because they can slip out of smaller places.

 

[Misfit_quail]

The biggest spider I have ever owned was a female fishing spider I had caught at my house. She ended up making an egg sac soon after I caught her and then she had hundreds of babies.

Smaller spiders can be more stressful because they can slip out of smaller places.

Jumping spiders hurt honestly I got bit once and never again