breeding P. glaucus

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Hello everyone,

I have some overwintering pupae P. Glaucus and i would like to breed with them next spring but i have some questions and i hope you can help me out

What is the best foodplant for the larvae? I am from Belgium so i can not use the Liriodendron as foodplant.

Is handparing a option?

[Adam Cotton]

You should use Prunus for Papilio glaucus, and yes they can be hand paired.

Adam.

[timmsyrj]

I reared some from ova a few years ago on Ash tree, fraxinus sp. growing at the bottom of my garden, I had 8 adults emerge from the dozen ova I bought at a show.
I was looking at try multicaudatus as pupae where available here in the UK earlier this year, they supposedly also take ash tree.

Rich

[bobw]

Many years ago I kept a colony of P. glaucus going here in southern England for more than 5 years. They are easy to hand-pair if you feed the males well and get them warm enough. I had two generations a year and fed them on Fraxinus. I started the larvae in plastic boxes and sleeved them outside from 3rd instar.

Bob

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Thanks for the help and info

[exoticimports]

Amazing how location is everything. Where I live we'd not bother to breed glaucus! I understand that North American sunfishes are also very popular in the European aquarium hobby, which is ironic since I can catch a thousand on a good day. Of course, O. urvilleanus is common as dirt in Solomons too.