I have an Evening Primrose Flower Moth caterpillar ( Schinia Florida) that I would like to try raising to adulthood. Does anyone know what condition this caterpillar needs for pupation and to make it thru the winter and spring ? Does it pupate in soil, or attached to the Evening Primrose, or what …

The only paper I could find was this one - 1970-24(4)282-Hardwick.pdf (yale.edu) . It seems as if it pupates in the soil. If it’s still a larva, stick it in a jar with soil (and a paper ‘climber’ for the spring). I don’t know where you are, but a fridge should do for it to break diapause. You may nee…

Thank you !!! This is just what I needed.

We also highly encourage you to document the life stage process to inaturalist! You can refer to this thread here that is about documenting life stages of lepidoptera (although this can be applied to various other taxa as well): https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/using-the-field-similar-observation-set…

Evening Primrose Flower Moth Pupation

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mamestraconfigurata September 7, 2021, 7:39pm 5

I found this helpful although it is about butterflies - https://www.joyfulbutterfly.com/overwinter-chrysalis/
About 2-3 cm of soil should be enough.

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Evening Primrose Flower Moth Pupation

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