Keeping Minibeasts: Caterpillars (1989, Franklin Watts Inc.) will provide you with the basics for successfully raising caterpillars. It gives advice on cages, how to handle caterpillars without harming them, and how to feed them. It also provides some interesting information on caterpillars, such as strategies they use to avoid being eaten. There are lots of photographs of caterpillars, but they aren't identified.
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Daniel Boone Regional Library, Columbia: E 595.78 WAT
St. Louis Public Library: J 595.78043
Kansas City Public Library: J 595.78 W34C
Adair County Public Library (Kirksville): JUV 638 Wat
Rolla Public Library: J 638.57
Notes on Rearing Caterpillars by Ann Thering
Photo of the Week:
Here's a photo from August 12, 2009, of a Hickory Horned Devil, the caterpillar of the Royal Hickory Moth. I fed Shagbark Hickory leaves to this caterpillar for about 7 weeks this summer until I had to stop raising him when I left on a photo trip. This caterpillar was almost 5” long and about 1/2” in diameter when I took this photo.
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