as I was replying to "new" Steve's post about sphinx moths I got thinking....every now and then someone posts that their cham was fine one day and dead the next morning for "no apparent reason," or that it has been fine for 2 years and "suddenly got sick, started acting weird, falling over...." Well, do we ever think to ask what it was fed the day, or days, before? Had it been fed an insect caught at a light, found on a plant or climbing a wall?



In my 3 1/2 years on this forum, I don't think it has been asked :-o. Normally, it is not something we think about. Insect toxicity comes up when some asks a specific question, but what if that otherwise healthy cham, with a great mom and/or dad, was fed a lightning bug, a monarch butterfly, a handful of milkweed bugs (MW bugs are often found congregating) the day before?



Granted, there can certainly be other reasons, but something to consider...



lele, the bug lady
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