mating is not effective
2006-12-04 12:05:00 · 10 answers · asked by the Magician's Assistant 4 in Pets ➔ Birds
butterflies need nectar. Butterflies will only lay eggs on certain plants. For instance, I raise monarche butterflies. I grow lots of things in my garden to attract the adult butterfly, but they will only lay their eggs on milkweed plants and that is all their caterpillar hatchlings will eat. You have to research your type of butterfly and find out what attracts it as an adult and what it lays it's eggs on, and have plenty of both in your yard.
I raise mine on my screened in porch and let them go when they hatch. Wasps eat caterpillars.
2006-12-04 12:08:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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Reproduction
The mating period for the overwinter population occurs in the spring, just prior to migration from the overwintering sites. The courtship is fairly simple and less dependent on chemical pheromones in comparison with other species in its genus. Courtship is composed of two distinct stages, the aerial phase and the ground phase. During the aerial phase, the male pursues, nudges, and eventually takes down the female. Copulation occurs during the ground phase and involves the transfer of a spermatophore from the male to female. Along with sperm, the spermatophore is thought to provide the female with energy resources that aid her in carrying out reproduction and remigration. The overwinter population returns only as far north as they need to go to find the early milkweed growth; in the case of the eastern butterflies that is commonly southern Texas.
Once they reach their breeding grounds, the females lay their eggs on milkweed host plants. The egg and larval period is temperature dependent and lasts about 2 weeks. At the end of this period, the larva enter a period of pupation as a chrysalis for 9 to 15 days, after which an adult butterfly emerges to continue the next step of the annual migration. On some remote islands, the monarch never migrates but remains in the garden where it was "born".
2006-12-04 12:11:19 · answer #2 · answered by sherry 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a pet butterfly? Well she'll lay her eggs before she dies they live to about a week good luck =) butterflys are nice it's good you're intrested in breeding them.
2006-12-04 18:31:01 · answer #3 · answered by Mutt-lover 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm sure your butterfly is beautiful. Let it go so that it can live a normal life. Good luck
2006-12-04 16:32:41 · answer #4 · answered by firestarter 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You do know a butterfly is an insect, not a bird...right.
2006-12-04 14:07:21 · answer #5 · answered by Heather 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have a pet butterfly?
2006-12-04 12:14:47 · answer #6 · answered by heather_766 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i assume you mean a pet butterfly?? they eat necture from flowers, and I've seen them eating poop!! I've also seen them at my humming bird feeder!!????
2006-12-04 12:08:38 · answer #7 · answered by rblankenship_rblankenship 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes.i think they have to mate.or else they would eat alot of plants
2006-12-04 13:04:20 · answer #8 · answered by steph 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
with a very tiny spoon.
2006-12-04 12:07:20 · answer #9 · answered by DASH 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
what?
2006-12-04 13:34:33 · answer #10 · answered by The Outsider 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋