Як розводити нічних метеликів Actias luna, в домашніх умовах? Experiment At Home, Kyiv, Ukraine.

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Як розводити нічних метеликів Actias luna, в домашніх умовах? How to Breed American Moon Moth, Actias luna, Saturniidae, Lepidoptera, Saturniidae, At Home? Experiment At Home, Kyiv, Ukraine.
06.august.2023. entomologist Dr Victor Fursov tells the story about silkmoths, Saturniidae. The luna moth (Actias luna), also called the American moon moth, is a Nearctic moth in the family Saturniidae, subfamily Saturniinae, a group commonly named the giant silk moths. The moth has lime-green wings and a white body.
Its caterpillars are also green.
Its typical wingspan is roughly 114 mm, but wingspans can exceed 178 mm (7.0 in), ranking the species as one of the larger moths in North America. Across Canada, it has one generation per year, with the winged adults appearing in late May or early June, whereas farther south it will have two or even three generations per year, the first appearance as early as March in southern parts of the United States. As defense mechanisms, larvae emit clicks as a warning and can also regurgitate intestinal contents, confirmed as having a deterrent effect on a variety of predators.
Based on the climate in which they live, Luna moths produce different numbers of generations per year.
In Canada and northern regions of the United States they are univoltine, meaning one generation per year.
Life stages are approximately 10 days as eggs, 6–7 weeks as larvae, 2-3 weeks as pupae, finishing with one week as winged adults appearing in late May or early June.
In the mid-Atlantic states the species is bivoltine, and farther south trivoltine, meaning respectively two and three generations per year.
In the central states the first generation appears in April, second in July.
Even farther south, first generation appears as early as March, with second and third spaced eight to ten weeks later. Females lay 200–400 eggs, singly or in small groups, on the underside of leaves of the tree species preferred by the larvae.
Egg laying starts the evening after mating is completed and goes on for several days.
Eggs hatch in about a week. Each instar – the period between molts – generally takes about 4–10 days.
There are five instars before cocooning.
At the end of each instar, a small amount of silk is placed on the major vein of a leaf and the larva undergoes apolysis, then ecdysis (molting), leaving the old exoskeleton behind.
Sometimes the shed exoskeleton is eaten.
Newly hatched, this caterpillar constantly munches on the leaves of walnut, hickory, sweetgum, and paper birch trees.
Each instar is green, though the first two instars do have some variation in which some larvae will have black underlying splotches on their dorsal side.
The final instar grows to approximately 70 mm (2.8 in) to 90 mm (3.5 in) in length.
All five instar stages possess green spines on the dorsal surface.
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