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sgg12899
at Mon Nov 17 21:28:04 2003 [ Email Message ] [ Show All Posts by sgg12899 ]
don't feed these tomato or tobacco leaves these contain toxins that will be passed on to your reptiles. larvae feed on solanaceous plants.Also you can buy educational kits for rearing them through their entire lifcycle from scientific catalogs here is a list of plants they are known to feed on in the wild:
Capsicum (Sweet and Chili Pepper)
Cestrum (Ornamental Plants)
Cymphomandra (Tomarillo)
Datura (Jimson weed, loco weed)
Lycium (Ornamental Plants, Sources of Chinese Herbal Medicines)
Lycopersicum (Tomato)
Nicotiana (Tobacco)
Petunia (Petunia)
Physalis (Tomatillo & Ground Cherry)
Solandra (Ornamental Vines)
Solanum (Potato, Eggplant, Christmas Cherry, Nightshade
But adults will take nectar from any plant.I suspect that the plastc flowers used for feeding humming birds will work fine for this purpose.check your local feed store. also adults will only lay there eggs on solanaceous plants in the wild. hope this helps Gordon
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