I'm sorry to hear about the crippled moths. I think I said in the article, as well as the posts, the importance of the stick. And that if unsure about diapause length always assume it will happen within 3-4 weeks. Remeberr that the length of diapause is mainly "programmed" during their early larval stages. If you live in a warm region there are other triggers that will be present.



If you have more pupae coming you may as well feed these to your cham (ugh! I cannot believe I just said that!!) As for the seconf two it takes about 7 hours of being left alone on the branch for them to fully expand and harden their wings. So if they had something to climb on jsut let them be over night.



As for feeding without offering flowers - you will have varied results. The rearing box article discusses how to make a feeder for them. I have never used one except when I raised the crippled moth (and mine was a bit different - there are pictures in the ChamNews article), but you have to be pretty dedicated to do it. They should find the sugar-water feeders if they are in a large enough cage where they can fly and hover.



Here is a site for the eclosion video

videos: http://insected.arizona.edu/manduca/mand_adult.html

and here is the rearing box/feeder site

feeder: http://insected.arizona.edu/manduca/Rear_reargbox.html



hope this answers your questions and PLEASE REMEMBER THE STICK!
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